abuse
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Acton, a pediatrician and former health director under Ohio’s current Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, has spoken openly during her campaign about facing abuse and neglect as a child, while in her mother’s custody.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
The BBC sent Freedom of Information requests to 45 police forces across England and Wales, asking for details of domestic abuse allegations involving police officers.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
There’s a significant difference, legally and morally, between financial mismanagement and elder financial abuse.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
She lists bills that would penalize states that permit abuse of their welfare systems, of which Minnesota is hardly alone, and another that would require deportation of aliens convicted of fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The difference was that here I could disagree with him without risking a flood of abuse or petulance.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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He and 12 other House members successfully sued the Trump administration after he was blocked from entering a detention facility and has said he trained legal observers to document ICE abuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The action by Vance’s antifraud task force targets Microsoft, Adobe and several tech recruiting companies over what officials have alleged are widespread abuses of the visa system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Mass defections erode loyalty, expose human-rights abuses and signal internal instability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It condemned all forms of discrimination against women and girls, and reiterated that sexual slavery of boys, and child marriages and forced forced marriages constituted human rights abuses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
He urged the migrants to step forward and report abuses.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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"No company in the US has abused this system more than Microsoft," Vance said.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"David Rush abused his position and betrayed the public trust and should be held fully accountable for his actions," CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
But universities got greedy and abused the system by overcharging the government for overhead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The administration says it seeks assurances from those countries that the deported persons will not be not be abused or persecuted, but it refuses hearings for individuals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
He talked a little more about the poor, abused door and what it meant and then ticked off an appropriate proverb.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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“There are real concerns as to whether or not she is acting as some sort of vigilante law enforcement person, that she’s wrongfully abusing her position as an elected official,” Bonakdar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
"They're telling me I'm abusing my horse? No way."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
I have read and replied to many cautionary tales about people abusing their responsibilities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
That hasn’t kept him from abusing other trade powers delegated by Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
I argued that police could improve public safety without abusing people.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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