abuse
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The centre said they supported 296 women, 88 men and 231 children in the last financial year and feel "there is a huge gap between rural and urban domestic abuse".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Officials are routinely subjected to highly charged interactions and, at times, verbal abuse from players and coaches,” Green said in the association’s news release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul this year championed modest reforms to curb legal abuse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
"No-one should ever be made to feel unsafe, scared, or at risk of abuse in their homes and communities."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But it turned out the notion that being a middle kid was a form of child abuse was greatly exaggerated.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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"This is no time to return anyone forcibly to a country plagued by egregious human rights violations and abuses," UN rights chief Volker Turk last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
However, his supporters say he was targeted for blogging about alleged human rights abuses against the Sikh community in India and was coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Yes, there have been abuses around the country, just as there have been in any government or private workplace where confidential information might be misused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Despite his ongoing asylum case, he now faces deportation to the country he fled and whose abuses he has spent years documenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The housing blogs of southern California teemed with stories of financial abuses made possible by these so-called thirty-year payment option ARMs, or adjustable-rate mortgages.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
Saylor made clear that he knew the game perfectly well as he asked these people, whose trust had been routinely abused, to trust him with their money.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Unsurprisingly, they’ve been abused, and green groups in particular have turned them into a profit model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"This will ensure that the whole ecosystem changes, tackling the means by which children are most often abused or groomed in the online world," Nandy said.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
After all I abused it much in the night when it was necessary to free and untie the various lines.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
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While more than 90% of over 2,000 respondents supported the ban, there were some concerns over the police and other authorised officers abusing the powers.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
I have read and replied to many cautionary tales about people abusing their responsibilities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
“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
Many musicians thought that conductors were abusing their power and playing favorites.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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