abuse

Insurers are begging Congress and the Administration for help to counter abuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"Today's action will begin to correct what is both a human rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere," his statement said.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“I think you’ll see a challenge there — that there’s just been an overreach and abuse of this particular statute,” Hillman said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Strict agency rules have long required an open bidding process whenever possible to guard against waste, fraud and abuse.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Joon and I both possess Uhmma’s lean fingers, but without the hard, yellowed calluses formed by years of abuse from physical labor.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na

The national police chief condemned the officers' alleged conduct in strong terms, warning that the command would no longer tolerate abuses of power.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The House Problem Solvers Caucus is pushing for national redistricting standards that could end the worst abuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Still, pressure is building on Israel to provide a more thorough accounting of its prisons, as more reports of alleged abuses come to light, report Feliz Solomon and Anat Peled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The report is the fruit of the Moscow Mechanism, a process triggered by the OSCE's 41 states on May 14 to allow independent experts to investigate grave human rights abuses in the conflict.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The American journalist threw out questions to El Jefe about his policies regarding political prisoners and the recent OAS charges of human rights abuses.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

"It is the state that has progressively abused the process."

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Then last month, the monitor claimed Fain abused his power to benefit his fiancée.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"I think we need to anchor it in what the law was intended to do and not the way it has been abused today."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

At a “20,000-foot level,” Hochman said, the databases available to his office suggested a vast majority of plaintiffs were never housed in the facilities where they said they were abused.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Let’s take a closer look at some of the more commonly abused words and phrases.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

To many people, the question is not whether these efforts will help, but why role models like coaches and parents are abusing officials in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The commission, the EU's antitrust regulator, had accused Google of abusing the popularity of its Android operating system to restrict competition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.

From Slate ● May 29, 2026

"I don't think he's abusing the legal system. Whether he uses it effectively, I'm not sure."

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

A couple of days later, Tom Testo, the director of the Department’s Bureau of Labor Relations, warned us against abusing these powers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover