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lawbreaking

NOUN
felony
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The First Amendment protects the right to advocate such lawbreaking, but a nonprofit that enjoys tax privileges can lose those privileges for supporting unlawful conduct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

The House Ethics Committee said it had amassed “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Santos that had been sent to the Justice Department.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2023

It also found that several high-level company officials lied to the administrative law judge to hide the company’s lawbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2023

With all his lawbreaking, that's not how this should be settled in a country that abides by the rule of law.

From Salon • Aug. 22, 2023

What he fails to see is that such lawbreaking requires such a fantastic network of lies, subterfuges, evasions, and chicanery that the structure itself eventually breaks down and his guilt is obvious to all.

From The Highest Treason by Garrett, Randall




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