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Last week's defeat in Rajkot was chastening - a real thumping that I analysed at the time - but overall this series has not been a thrashing like the two that preceded it.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2024

The Rev. Willie McLaurin, interim president of the SBC executive committee, and Rolland Slade, its chairman, said Sunday afternoon that the report was chastening.

From Washington Times • May 22, 2022

For a city with such rich athletics heritage to produce such small crowds, even on the final weekend, was chastening.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2014

Selling his city abroad was chastening, the mayor says: most Chinese had never heard of it.

From Economist • Aug. 23, 2012

Somehow he felt that he was chastening himself.

From Jane Cable by McCutcheon, George Barr