abuse
Example Sentences
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And what of all this waste, fraud and abuse?
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
You can then keep your retirement funds—even if you abuse your position, skip Dodge before Congress can expel you, or serve a prison stint.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Leon Schreiber, the minister of home affairs in South Africa's coalition government, welcomed the ruling as a "major victory" against the "abuse" of the refugee system.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
But then this creepy production says much more about the power directors have, particularly in Germany, to abuse helpless operas than the work’s central theme: the power of music to overcome even death.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
I'd seen the abuse of power in many cases before, but there was something especially upsetting about it here, where not only a single defendant was being victimized but an entire community as well.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing abuse
Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 4
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Macbeth's "Is this a dagger..." soliloquy
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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