as in criticized
to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of
more concerned with pleasing audiences, the playwright has always claimed to be indifferent to whether critics praise his comedies or blame them without mercy
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Recent Examples of blamed
In Guadalajara, South Korea’s opening day win against Czech Republic was headlined by empty seats, which FIFA blamed on several fans watching the game from the stadium concourses.
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ABC News,
30 June 2026
Officials directly blamed the unrest on severe staffing shortages.
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Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
For years, stakeholders, including UK soccer channel Sky Sports, England’s Premier League professional soccer league, and the world’s largest European soccer streamer, DAZN, blamed Fire Sticks for a lot of streaming piracy.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2026
Temperatures reached historic highs Historic high temperatures in 2003, surpassed this time, were blamed for 15,000 deaths, provoking a national reckoning about care of older people, who were particularly hard-hit.
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John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
In the city alone, heat is blamed for hundreds of deaths each year, especially during heat waves.
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Renee Anderson,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Lozano denies mass immigration fraud Angelo Calfo, an attorney representing Lozano, said clients were expected to review their applications before signing and blamed them for any false statements.
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Jack Brook,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2026
The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
The White House said in a statement that the Iran resolution had no significance and blamed the result on Republican absences.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
ABC News,
30 June 2026
Officials directly blamed the unrest on severe staffing shortages.
—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
30 June 2026
For years, stakeholders, including UK soccer channel Sky Sports, England’s Premier League professional soccer league, and the world’s largest European soccer streamer, DAZN, blamed Fire Sticks for a lot of streaming piracy.
—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2026
Temperatures reached historic highs Historic high temperatures in 2003, surpassed this time, were blamed for 15,000 deaths, provoking a national reckoning about care of older people, who were particularly hard-hit.
—
John Leicester,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
In the city alone, heat is blamed for hundreds of deaths each year, especially during heat waves.
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Renee Anderson,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
Lozano denies mass immigration fraud Angelo Calfo, an attorney representing Lozano, said clients were expected to review their applications before signing and blamed them for any false statements.
—
Jack Brook,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2026
The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
23 June 2026
The White House said in a statement that the Iran resolution had no significance and blamed the result on Republican absences.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blamed
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The program posed a massive political problem for Mamdani, who’s been criticized by both his allies and opponents for his stance.
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While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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Researchers sometimes refer to these influences as permission structures, or social cues that signal whether certain behaviors are likely to be rewarded, ignored or condemned.
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The author — who first came under fire in 2020 for making remarks widely condemned as transphobic — has denied being transphobic, defending her views as pro-feminist.
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The lawsuit also faulted organizers for not ensuring attendees did not have weapons, tear gas or bear spray, for allowing attendees to enter the festival from multiple unmonitored points and for not imposing security measures after problems at previous events.
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The senators’ letter also faulted the way Tesla counts crashes in its safety reports.
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Several temple administrators have denounced robotic elephants for rituals and festivals.
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Activists and faith leaders denounced the conditions at the office during a press conference the previous day, calling on officials to visit the facility and said there had been bad conditions at the facility for weeks.
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Tatis led off and knocked Boyd's fifth pitch over the left-field bleachers onto Waveland Avenue, before Chicago answered in the bottom of the inning when Seiya Suzuki scored on Carson Kelly's RBI single.
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Kale said her 11-year-old and 16-year-old sons knocked the bat off her and killed it.
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“Blamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blamed. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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