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Homegrown businesses, such as beauty brand Amortals and streetwear label Wah Yan Ching Nin, have also placed ads outside shopping malls across the country, calling for an end to animal abuse.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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

The Times lawyers said the requests for phone records “demonstrate abuse of the grand jury process, continued bad-faith attacks on the journalists” and violate Justice Department regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

We must be careful not to abuse our gifts.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Now he’s looking for that kind of “momentum,” to solve this most stubborn of abuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

"The proposal must not have loopholes that allow abuses," Canfin, who will also take part in negotiations on behalf of the parliament, said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Inspired by Khalra's life, the film follows an activist investigating alleged human rights abuses during Punjab's separatist insurgency, one of the bloodiest chapters in modern Indian history.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

We’re already amply aware that some stars are just so talented that they’re beyond accountability or making amends for previous power abuses that irreparably harmed other people and their careers.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

He will take the insults and abuses stoically so that his children will not have to take them in the future.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The EU said Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison-shopping service in search results and demoting those of competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The difficulty in being consistent with the law, and the potential for it to be abused, means it might not be adopted by the domestic leagues.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

The law is “being blatantly abused by the lemon law plaintiffs lawyers, the bar is not policing its own and the courts need to monitor fee awards with far more skepticism and scrutiny.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

I wept to recall how he spurned me and abused my love, and I rebuked myself for trusting him.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

In his report last month, Barofsky accused Fain of abusing his office by pressuring Boyer to advocate for a bonus for employees of a training center jointly run by the union and Stellantis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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

Former England boss Eddie Jones has been fined and suspended as head coach of Japan for abusing match officials during an under-23 tour of Australia last month.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

But after he left Miss Ransom’s house and stood for a half hour watching Bud and C.T. abusing each other at checkers, he decided to check Sheila out right fast and quit for the day.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison