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# criticize

verb

«criticize» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

103 uses in 53 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a verb in 103 of 103. By the class of the article: company 17, country 11, other 9, university 7. Most often with: «company», «government», «organization», «have», «former».

### Examples

- The marketing tactic was criticized for its environmental cost, and AOL CDs were recognized as \*PC World\*s most annoying tech product. — [AOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), sentence 238 («wiki:AOL:238»)
- In 2023, the company was widely criticized for mass layoffs that impacted 12,000 employees, many of whom discovered their termination only upon losing account access. — [Alphabet Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), sentence 11 («wiki:Alphabet\_Inc.:11»)
- Pope Gregory IX, who originally had called the crusade, was outraged about this brutality and criticized the clergy for not preventing it. — [Angoulême](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), sentence 136 («wiki:Angoulême:136»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«AOL»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alphabet Inc.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Angoulême»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoulême), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.