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offend

[uh-fend] / əˈfɛnd /


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"It is never our intention to offend our audience," the statement added.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"British Airways, Lufthansa, and everybody else's high fares, I'll happily offend them on a regular basis," he had added.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But more than that, ‘Are we doing things that could actually offend them?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

I don’t care if the officers caught on tape didn’t intend to offend, and I don’t care what Hochman intends the message to be with his vast over-charging of Flores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

But when you disarm them you begin to offend them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

That number offends many people because they assume wealth must have been taken from someone else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"It was the wrong thing to do. It offends against their own customers' sense of fair play," he added.

From BBC ● May 20, 2025

But discomfort lives in the shadows: in the quiet space between conscience and control, between what offends and what erases.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2025

At the very least, that's not something that offends people.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

He sniffs, as though the very smell of me offends him.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Lula said the saint was "offended" by those who "do not respect" the religion of others, while Bolsonaro asserted his "respect for the faith of millions of Brazilians."

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Worry less about who’s talking to whom and who has offended whom, and more about the parents’ independence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

It’s not that I’m offended by the idea of generated art; it’s just that it bores me.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Instead, the cyber-criminals asked the agency to retract an advisory that it issued in May about the gang, saying it was "offended" by its characterisation.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Maria’s pioneering exploration offended many gentleman scholars at the time, however.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

"We will take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime and other offending," said senior Met officer Carl Galvin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

“We contacted the offending students’ families and instituted consequences, and are working to educate the students about the impact of their actions,” Holdren said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

A Home Office spokesperson said retail crime had been "dismissed as low-level offending" but it harmed shopworkers and damaged businesses.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Lucy said she had had no idea of her ex-husband's offending until police knocked on their door with a search warrant to seize his devices and arrested him.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I shifted and fished around on the ground for the offending item.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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