harassed
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As the newly elected mayor of Anaheim in 1978, he angered the city’s Police Department by suggesting the creation of a citizens oversight commission after residents complained that officers regularly harassed and beat them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Mills told reporters Tuesday he has never sexually harassed his staff, that he’s not under indictment, and that “it was essentially just something where it was a bad breakup.”
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
They admit that two women were harassed, but stressing that such acts are criminal, not cultural.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
I told them how East Lansing harassed us so much that we had to move again, this time two miles out of town, into the country.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
