abused

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A California state bill seeks to remove abused and neglected animals from crowded municipal shelters during their owners’ criminal cases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

"It wasn't only white girls who were abused. Asian girls were abused too," she says.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 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 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

Aureliano Segundo, ashamed, pretended an attack of rage, said that he was misunderstood and abused, and did not visit her again.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez