abusive
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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 dog relationship: I have a close friend who’s more like a sister to me.
From Slate • May 4, 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
In the text, Book III, Fable xi is “The Eunuch to the Abusive Man”; all following fables in Riley are numbered one higher than in the Table of Contents.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
Vocabulary lists containing abusive
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