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Other local party units have censured elected officials without punishment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

And in the last century, as courts have censured other monopolies, academics and jurists have noticed a pattern: Monopolies and technology often seem intertwined.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2018

Before the Vatican Council, bishops could have censured an outspoken priest without hearing a word of public complaint.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the University of California, Berkeley, David Vogel, who teaches business ethics, said flatly, "The faculty should have censured him or fired him."

From Time Magazine Archive

In so doing Anglesey was held by Ormonde to have censured his conduct and that of Charles I. in concluding the "Cessation," and the duke brought the matter before the council.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various