abuse
Example Sentences
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The Crime and Policing Bill, now in its final stages in parliament, has been framed to improve authorities' crackdowns on knife crime, anti-social behaviour, violence against women and girls, shoplifting and child abuse.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
I’m all in on eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
In a recent meeting, Indiana’s top Medicaid official warned autism-therapy providers to self-report any abuse under the old system or risk facing federal scrutiny, officials and autism therapy providers said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
In November, we had the first version of the current guideline, against writing new articles with LLMs, which sadly didn’t apply to existing articles, where most of the abuse was.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
Let him not persuade us that he would be the last speaker because he wants to abuse that privilege and attack us in the hope that we won’t respond.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
