Example Sentences

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It is not a new message: Central bankers have been chastising government leaders for not providing more aggressive stimulus for years.

From Washington Post

He shrugged when he ought to have been chastising; and he stormed when he ought to have held his tongue.

From The Master of the Shell by Reed, Talbot Baines