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All 19 suspects are in pretrial detention facing charges of facilitating irregular immigration, homicide, assault and torture.

From BBC

When patriot forces captured loyalist irregulars – often called “Tories” or “refugees” – they frequently treated them not as prisoners of war but as traitors, executing them swiftly, usually by hanging.

From Salon

He was certainly careful to articulate which sections of his informed reconstructions came from actual mural fragments, painting those irregular shapes in deeper hues, like dispersed puzzle pieces.

The figures also showed that the number of "irregular" arrivals - meaning people who arrive in the UK via clandestine routes, such as small boats - were also up.

From BBC

This income figure was used to determine how much welfare was paid, but the calculation led to mistakes if a welfare recipient worked irregular hours from week to week.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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