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Discover LudwigThe phrase "punish with" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the action of inflicting a penalty or consequence on someone for bad behavior. Here is an example of its usage in a sentence: "The school's disciplinary code states that students who are found cheating on exams will be punished with a suspension and a mark on their academic record."
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Pointedly, why punish with a paper when a blog is, relatively, fun?
"The ministry added that these armed groups have committed vicious crimes that the law would punish with the strongest penalties," SANA said.
The prophet prohibited using fire as a means to kill another being, because only the Lord of fire can punish with fire.
In December 1996, the currency's rules were toughened in a so-called Stability Pact, intended to punish with costly fines countries that persistently broke the rules once inside the euro zone.
Fifteen months earlier, Placente had driven through a red light and neglected to answer the summons, an offence that Corral was going to punish with a heavy dose of techno-Kafkaesque.
Today's devastating and astonishingly well-coordinated attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and on the Pentagon outside of Washington plunged the nation into a warlike struggle against an enemy that will be hard to identify with certainty and hard to punish with precision.
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"Should rape cases be punished with hanging?
He was punished with all the pain.
Offenders could be punished with transportation.
He was punished with two months' imprisonment.
Drunk-driving is punished with hard labour.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com