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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rebuke.

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Examples

  • The reason expressed ideas such as those from "Dumb Blonde" and others who support his position on woman and hunting, as well as "Rob from Illinois" and his ideas on property rights, must be swiftly and strongly rebuked is to help ensure that our children and grandchildren will always be able to enjoy the great sport of hunting.

    Exclusive Video: Is This the Walking Record Whitetail? 2008

  • My father-in-law was rebuked, which is what the evil saucer was really after.

    Frisbees Are Evil - Repost kludge 2009

  • My father-in-law was rebuked, which is what the evil saucer was really after.

    Archive 2009-06-01 kludge 2009

  • What language shall we find then that is strong enough fitly to characterize the attitude of these so-called ministers of Christ, who in his name rebuked and derided the aspirations of a world weary of social wrong and seeking for a better way? "

    Equality Edward Bellamy 1874

  • My father-in-law was rebuked, which is what the evil saucer was really after.

    Archive 2006-07-01 kludge 2006

  • VANDEN HEUVEL: I presume his innocence, but I would point the American people to the fact that he has been rebuked, which is unprecedented by this House Ethics Committee for blackmailing a Republican legislator to pass the Medicare boon doggle (ph), that he traded campaign contradictions for legislation and all of this, Larry is basically sacrificing the interests of American people for special interests.

    CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2005 2005

  • No one asks them to dance; if you do you get "rebuked" roundly!

    Goddesses running 2008

  • Too bad Sowell didn't actually read about the Didden case or otherwise do his homework before he put his poison pen to work, or he'd have known that the Supreme Court never heard the Didden case at all, let alone "rebuked" the Second Circuit panel that Judge Sotomayor was on.

    Judith E. Schaeffer: Conservative Columnist Invents Supreme Court Ruling to Attack Sotomayor 2009

  • The full accomplishment of Israel's justification and of Satan the accuser's being "rebuked" finally, is yet future (Re 12: 10).

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But there is a likelihood that the OPR investigation will recommend that Yoo and Bybee be "rebuked" for the way in which they interpreted a law that formed the basis of the memo, according to people familiar with the OPR's probe.

    Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines 2009

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