abuse

It aimed to enable any current or former MLAs or staff, or other users of Parliament Buildings, to report "any incidents of abuse or inappropriate behaviour they directly experienced".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The slavocrats’ abuse of the Postal Service ended only with the Civil War.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

It was a good start, but states still have little incentive to attack abuse and fraud since they receive more money from the feds the more they spend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

A 437-page report written by a panel of three judges in 2021 found that the state had shirked its duty to protect Caruana Galizia and subjected her to personal attacks and verbal abuse from politicians.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 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

The ICC began to concern the great powers when it ramped up investigations of abuses by nonmember states on the territories of member states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Here's what you need to know about the clothing giant, which has faced allegations of labour and environmental abuses as well as regulatory scrutiny abroad.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

There are still transparency laws that apply to Flock databases, which is how 404 Media and other media outlets have discovered abuses of the technology.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

But countless abuses had stretched the vertical fibers apart and weakened the horizontal ones beyond use.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“Words cannot begin to express the profound sorrow I feel that a service we designed to bring people happiness and joy has been abused to cause harm.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Iglesias, 82, called the accusations "absolutely false", saying he had never "abused, coerced, or disrespected any woman".

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Paul Pemberton has been a Wrexham councillor for more than 20 years and said the site had been "abused for many many years".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Several months later, they locked horns with their abolition movement colleagues again when Anthony assisted a woman who was being abused by her husband.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“Who wants to be accused of abusing children?” said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

In 1890, the North River Sugar Refining Corporation was dissolved by New York’s highest court on the grounds that it was abusing its power as a corporation.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

Flock cameras help police solve crimes, but cases of officers abusing their access to the technology for stalking raise concerns about privacy violations.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2026

A court-appointed monitor accused Fain of abusing his power to benefit his fiancée, an allegation now under investigation by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Germans are upset at stories that Czechs and Poles are abusing ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia and Poland.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti