Penalize
verb
To punish someone for breaking a rule or law.
The company was penalized for not paying taxes on time.
Often appears as...
- penalize for
- penalize by
verb
To put at a disadvantage by treating unfairly.
Don't penalize her just because she's late.
Often appears as...
- penalize for
- unfairly penalize
verb
To punish someone for breaking a rule or law.
The company was penalized for not paying taxes on time.
Often appears as...
- penalize for
- penalize by
verb
To put at a disadvantage by treating unfairly.
Don't penalize her just because she's late.
Often appears as...
- penalize for
- unfairly penalize
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Pro Tip 1/3Breaking Rules
Use 'penalize' when someone suffers consequences for breaking rules or laws.
Players who use performance-enhancing drugs are penalized by the league.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
'Penalize' is often used in legal and formal scenarios, such as sports, business, or government.
The athlete was penalized for a false start.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Variation
The severity of penalties can vary widely, from a small fine to more serious repercussions.
He was penalized with a simple warning.
Pro Tip 1/3Breaking Rules
Use 'penalize' when someone suffers consequences for breaking rules or laws.
Players who use performance-enhancing drugs are penalized by the league.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
'Penalize' is often used in legal and formal scenarios, such as sports, business, or government.
The athlete was penalized for a false start.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Variation
The severity of penalties can vary widely, from a small fine to more serious repercussions.
He was penalized with a simple warning.
Pro Tip 1/3Breaking Rules
Use 'penalize' when someone suffers consequences for breaking rules or laws.
Players who use performance-enhancing drugs are penalized by the league.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
'Penalize' is often used in legal and formal scenarios, such as sports, business, or government.
The athlete was penalized for a false start.
Pro Tip 3/3Severity Variation
The severity of penalties can vary widely, from a small fine to more serious repercussions.
He was penalized with a simple warning.
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The ethical dilemma of...
but now there's a motorcyclist wearing a helmet to your left and another one without a helmet to your right. Which one should your robot car crash into? If you say the biker with the helmet because she's more likely to survive, then aren't you penalizing the responsible motorist? If, instead, you save the biker without the helmet
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Majora Carter: Greening...
Crime rates dropped, because the streets were alive with people. His administration attacked several typical urban problems at one time, and on a third-world budget, at that. We have no excuse in this country, I'm sorry. But the bottom line their people-first agenda was not meant to penalize those who could actually afford cars,
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Let's use video to...
like riding a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary, until you have mastery. The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to fail. But we do expect mastery.
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Greening the ghetto -...
with people his administration's attacks several typical urban problems at one time and on a third-world budget at that we have no excuse in this country I'm sorry but the bottom line is they're people first agenda was not meant to penalize those who could who could actually afford cars but rather to
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
or worse, if they're penalized for having me as their lawyer. With every case that I take, I realize that as much as I'm standing behind my clients, that they're also standing behind me, and that's what keeps me going. Law as a point of leverage is crucial in protecting all of us.
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Let's use video to...
mastery the traditional model it penalizes you for experimentation and failure but it does not expect mastery we encourage you to experiment we encourage you to failure but we do expect mastery this is just one another one of the modules this is trigonometry this is
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COVID-19, Humans, and...
which has been a result that's come out of this but you know just on ACCA's question why isn't the why isn't industry penalized for this I mean is this something that we should be looking at I think you could think of any of these different types of market drivers
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Why is it so hard to...
Some have suggested this feedback loop could be removed by eliminating government assistance programs altogether. But most agree the solution is neither realistic nor humane. So how can we redesign benefits in a way that doesn't penalize people for working?
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Bending light PIPE Baile...
light around this object as if in the same way as water stream around this object then and if so no observable we were able to see through object as if the object will not there but how to penalize imagine we have a
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The Likability Dilemma...
Why? Because in our society, women are penalized when we behave in ways that violate gender norms. Our gender stereotypes show that women should be kind, nurturing, helpful, supportive, deferential,
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The ethical dilemma of...
but now there's a motorcyclist wearing a helmet to your left and another one without a helmet to your right. Which one should your robot car crash into? If you say the biker with the helmet because she's more likely to survive, then aren't you penalizing the responsible motorist? If, instead, you save the biker without the helmet
Video examples
Majora Carter: Greening...
Crime rates dropped, because the streets were alive with people. His administration attacked several typical urban problems at one time, and on a third-world budget, at that. We have no excuse in this country, I'm sorry. But the bottom line their people-first agenda was not meant to penalize those who could actually afford cars,
Video examples
Let's use video to...
like riding a bicycle. Stay on that bicycle. Fall off that bicycle. Do it as long as necessary, until you have mastery. The traditional model, it penalizes you for experimentation and failure, but it does not expect mastery. We encourage you to experiment. We encourage you to fail. But we do expect mastery.
Video examples
Greening the ghetto -...
with people his administration's attacks several typical urban problems at one time and on a third-world budget at that we have no excuse in this country I'm sorry but the bottom line is they're people first agenda was not meant to penalize those who could who could actually afford cars but rather to
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
or worse, if they're penalized for having me as their lawyer. With every case that I take, I realize that as much as I'm standing behind my clients, that they're also standing behind me, and that's what keeps me going. Law as a point of leverage is crucial in protecting all of us.
Video examples
Let's use video to...
mastery the traditional model it penalizes you for experimentation and failure but it does not expect mastery we encourage you to experiment we encourage you to failure but we do expect mastery this is just one another one of the modules this is trigonometry this is
Video examples
COVID-19, Humans, and...
which has been a result that's come out of this but you know just on ACCA's question why isn't the why isn't industry penalized for this I mean is this something that we should be looking at I think you could think of any of these different types of market drivers
Video examples
Why is it so hard to...
Some have suggested this feedback loop could be removed by eliminating government assistance programs altogether. But most agree the solution is neither realistic nor humane. So how can we redesign benefits in a way that doesn't penalize people for working?
Video examples
Bending light PIPE Baile...
light around this object as if in the same way as water stream around this object then and if so no observable we were able to see through object as if the object will not there but how to penalize imagine we have a
Video examples
The Likability Dilemma...
Why? Because in our society, women are penalized when we behave in ways that violate gender norms. Our gender stereotypes show that women should be kind, nurturing, helpful, supportive, deferential,
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Lawrence Kudlow
American Journalist
Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.
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Jerome Bruner
American Psychologist
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
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Paul Romer
American Economist
But the point of a progressive revenue tax is that you create incentives both for breakups, you penalize the acquisitions, and you encourage the development of models where the customers are customers and they know what they're giving up.
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Mercedes Schlapp
American Public Servant
Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned with being penalized by their employer for having children.
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Bill Maris
American Businessman
Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.
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Corey Lewandowski
American
President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.
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Adam Cohen
American Journalist
Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Daniel Greenberg
American Educator
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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Kamala Harris
American Vice President
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.
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Lindsay Davenport
American Athlete
We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
Quote examples
Lawrence Kudlow
American Journalist
Many people do not understand that business investment is a critical prosperity-booster, leading to more jobs, higher wages, and stronger family income. Put another way, rising tax and regulatory burdens that penalize investors and businesses also punish middle-income wage earners.
Quote examples
Jerome Bruner
American Psychologist
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Quote examples
Paul Romer
American Economist
But the point of a progressive revenue tax is that you create incentives both for breakups, you penalize the acquisitions, and you encourage the development of models where the customers are customers and they know what they're giving up.
Quote examples
Mercedes Schlapp
American Public Servant
Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned with being penalized by their employer for having children.
Quote examples
Bill Maris
American Businessman
Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.
Quote examples
Corey Lewandowski
American
President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can't have it both ways.
Quote examples
Adam Cohen
American Journalist
Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
Quote examples
Daniel Greenberg
American Educator
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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Kamala Harris
American Vice President
In this great country, we celebrate success. We don't want to penalize those who have done well.
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Lindsay Davenport
American Athlete
We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
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