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Six example sentences with rebuke, each labelled with its topic.
The coach stopped practice to rebuke a starter who had jogged back on defense for the third time.
Basketball
The speaker rose to rebuke members who had leaked the draft, warning that the committee would meet privately from now on.
Politics
Reviewers rebuked the museum for hanging the new acquisition above a radiator, and the trustees moved it within a week.
Art
The appeals court rebuked the trial judge for cutting off the witness before she had finished her answer.
Law
The conductor rebuked the brass section for playing through a rest, and the rehearsal restarted from bar one.
Music
The regulator rebuked the bank in public for advertising a savings rate that almost no customer could actually get.
Finance
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