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Example sentences for: berates

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It also berates everyone, from early programmers to IBM to Microsoft to the Clinton administration, for lackadaisical response.
Jim Saxton, R-N.J., jumps up and down in his chair "like a schoolboy" and crudely berates Reich while a bread-and-circuses audience laughs and applauds.
A review of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's new memoir berates the former U.N. secretary-general for his arrogance and condescension.
A second piece berates Gore for supporting affirmative action and accuses him of grossly distorting the views of affirmative-action opponents.
The editorial lauds hawkish Republicans for their willingness to send ground troops to Kosovo and berates poll-wary Democrats for their hesitance to do so.