abusive
Example Sentences
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Banning the biggest troublemakers in the skies, as the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act proposes, is an idea worth considering.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
The Protection from Abusive Passengers Act would allow banned individuals to appeal and provide ways to lift the ban.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2022
Q. Abusive parent may be trans as well?
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2021
Proposing what has been called the Earn It Act, a backronym for “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies”, the new bill was introduced by a bipartisan collection of senators on Thursday.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2020
Abusive hackerism for the crufty and elephantine X environment on Sun machines; properly called `OpenWindows'.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Vocabulary lists containing abusive
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