involuntary
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Involuntary treatment is claimed to be necessary because people would not enter therapy voluntarily.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024
She has been appointed to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2023
After the state sterilized thousands of Californians without their consent, lawmakers offered reparations in 2021 by creating the Forced or Involuntary Sterilization Compensation Program.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were abandoned three weeks after a new prosecutor team took over the case, though the same charge currently remains for weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2023
Involuntary bankruptcy––found his sanctimonious old cashier’d been sanctimoniously lootin’ the till for eighteen years.”
From Rope by Hall, Holworthy
Vocabulary lists containing involuntary
13th Amendment (1865)
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