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victim

[vik-tim] / ˈvɪk tɪm /
NOUN
person who has suffered an injury
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NOUN
person or animal sacrificed
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Moore fell victim to an increasingly common kind of retail fraud that is costing consumers and retailers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

"I hope the victim and her family can sort of get over it as soon as possible in terms of healing and move on," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Late Monday, dozens of people, including the mother of a Novi Sad disaster victim, stormed Informer's premises and disrupted its broadcast.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

A winning stock can easily become a victim of its own success.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The last victim was black and close to Frank’s age.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

The Civil Guard has set up four offices in the cities of Madrid, Toledo, Cordoba and Seville to enable relatives of the victims to provide DNA samples and help identify the missing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Meanwhile, customers are discovering they are victims while checking out, creating awkward and sometimes difficult situations at stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The way she saw it, there were two victims here: “Us, who were not asked, dismissed, demeaned, and called racist.”

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

On Tuesday morning, the court in New York heard from 12 victims, including one who did not testify during the trial.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The chairs, the carpet, the tables—all had rotted away; they sagged in mutual ruin, victims of the despotic force of time.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick


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