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rape

[reyp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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Platner, a Marine veteran whose blunt anti-establishment message thrilled the progressive grassroots, quit the race after a rape allegation he denies.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

A New York judge declared a mistrial in disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape case in its third trial, after a jury said “no one is going to change where they stand.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Louisiana, an existing Supreme Court decision declaring capital punishment for child rape to be unconstitutional.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

Levy's defence lawyer, Siobhan Grey, told the court that the alleged rape victim "is not telling the truth about the alleged attack and that her credibility, reliability and honesty are called into question".

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.

From Slate May 7, 2025

Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”

From Washington Times Sep. 10, 2023

Giambruno, whose partner is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was addressing recent alleged gang rapes in Italy.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2023

The 2022 annual report from the City of Atlanta Police Department shows violent crime — homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults — decreased 9% from 2021 to 2022.

From Seattle Times Aug. 22, 2023

At the same time a harvest-wagon, loaded with rapes and drawn by four horses, came into the yard.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2024

Calocane's first admission for mental health treatment came on 25 May after two incidents when he broke into neighbours' flats, believing his mother was being raped inside.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2024

Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2024

In America or Australia there are no hospitals where lie thousands of girls too young to become mothers who have been raped.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

In her first lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he insulted her and denied raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Former Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves denied raping a woman in a nightclub as he took the stand on the final day of his trial in Spain.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2024

Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty at a retrial Friday of one count of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another woman.

From Washington Times Jul. 14, 2023

Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical tells the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a factory manager in Atlanta who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2023

Michael Ferrera, another of Carroll's attorneys, said Trump "just decided not to be here. He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll."

From Salon May 9, 2023




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