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- adjective Not
rebuked .
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Examples
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Two days ago the girls who were "unrebuked" this evening would have found themselves in jail instead.
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Two days ago the girls who were "unrebuked" this evening would have found themselves in jail instead.
A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson 1875
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His seizure of Yukos and imprisonment of its boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which incidentally wiped out Yukos's Western minority shareholders, went mostly unrebuked.
Shale Gas and the Putin Puzzle Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Left unrebuked and denounced, the sentiment may fester and they may become emboldend to to worse things.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated' 2009
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The death of investigative journalists, the killings of nosy legislators, the polonium murder, on British soil, of critic Alexander Litvinenko, in an act of nuclear terrorism, have all gone pretty much unrebuked.
Shale Gas and the Putin Puzzle Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Notice the complexity of the teaching: Human beings go unrebuked when they celebrate the downfall and death of a tyrant; but the Rabbis are addressing our higher selves, trying to move us into a higher place.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Bin Laden & Beyond Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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You don't need to put in a panel of a grinning hook-nosed Shylock or say the phrase "Jew money-lenders" or even put (or hint at the concept) "Jew" and "money-lenders" in context with one another for the term -- left unrebuked -- to be understood for what it is.
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Notice the complexity of the teaching: Human beings go unrebuked when they celebrate the downfall and death of a tyrant; but the Rabbis are addressing our higher selves, trying to move us into a higher place.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Bin Laden & Beyond Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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His country's nearly unbroken record of double-crossing Western oil companies has gone pretty much unrebuked.
Shale Gas and the Putin Puzzle Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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The problem the Republicans have is that the psychotic wing of their party, which stands uncensored, unrepudiated, unrebuked by the rest of the party, has tarred all of them.
OH-GOV: GOP Pastor Demands Stricklands "Prove" They're Not Gay 2009
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