defamatory
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Cizeron, who is competing in next month's Milan-Cortina Winter Games with a new partner, has denounced "defamatory remarks" and is considering legal action.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
Screenshots also showed messages containing defamatory statements appearing for some users.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
“The unprecedented decision by the Board to place Villanueva on a ‘Do Not Hire’ was the result of a defamatory charge of discrimination and harassment,” the former sheriff wrote in the June complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025
She also claims $34 million in reputational harm, citing 65 million “impressions of the defamatory statements.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
But it is not enough that the writer of defamatory articles himself knows that they are true, unless he is able to produce, when required, competent legal proof of their truth.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by News, The Detroit
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