chastened

If they strike, or demonstrate, my police forces kill them and everyone else goes back to work, suitably chastened.

The Dutch (politicians and bureaucrats both) have been suitably chastened by the unexpected blowback.

We're about to discover that an LLM can't be chastened or fired for negligence.

I think the United States has been chastened by some of the results of those earlier policies.

The catch being that if I post details pointing fingers, I will be summarily chastened.

Google is reasonably scared and chastened by Microsoft's massive antitrust battle, and Eric Schmidt pragmatically ramped up lobbying and philanthropy when he took the helm.

You get chastened in a hurry with that kind of attitude.

Many come back from it chastened but better for it.

Damn dude you are a brave grizzled warrior battling demons, a lonely fighter against injustice (self checkout terminals) and I am duly chastened.

At least, since this was posted on the public internet, it eventually was able to gain the benefit of wide scrutiny, and the original posters were somewhat chastened.

I have been chastened in the opposite direction by others.

He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked.

So much of the conspiracy theorists' case rests on the "magic bullet" that you'd think its definitive refutation would have chastened them.

Slapping "In God We Trust" on everything was not only a fairly recent development, it was a cynically calculated response by a chastened business class that found itself coming under extraordinary scrutiny in the wake of the Great Depression.

Chastened by the story, I thanked my lucky stars that our plucky Development Manager, Dan Cryer, had insisted in upgrading our stream to a premium, ad-free service after the show started.