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"But I also have a complaint. If the schools and education were open to all it would be a great work for Afghanistan. I hope this doesn't offend you."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

A sympathetic observer might fairly wonder what the point is of a grand moral pronouncement—one issued by the pope or any religious figure—that doesn’t offend or seriously challenge honored cultural arbiters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

He added that education, rather than "punitive punishment", is the solution to children displaying discriminatory behaviour where it comes from a "lack of understanding and without intention to offend".

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

"Your Highness, I hope I have done nothing to offend you, but if I have, my sincerest apologies," Astrid stammers out.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

That’s “diworsification”—ideas watered down to the lowest common denominator, the least innovative option that offends no one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

"Crass content can be criticised if it offends you. However, you cannot have the state persecute and lock up people for offending your 'moral sentiments'," he wrote in a post on X.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

‘May December’ offends Vili Fualaau, Mary Kay Letourneau’s former student and estranged husband, who felt disrespected when he wasn’t included in telling his story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

“Whether it offends people or not, hard decisions have to be made.”

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

But this one was so bad that it even offended Martinez Valladares, a Republican whose district stretches from the Grapevine to Victorville.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

“We sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt, disappointed, or offended by this incident.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Parker offended many actors with her acid remarks, but for Monroe she had only kind words.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Pearl stopped, eyeing the blue-and-white Gap bag dangling from Lexie’s arm by its drawstrings, wondering suddenly if she would be offended.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

Then I thought to show my colleague’s offending email to an AI, which didn’t have all my baggage of past gripes with this co-worker or past indignation at being similarly dismissed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

"It is widely acknowledged that police should be looking at behavioural patterns across incidents and seeking to identify where repeat offending might indicate escalating risk. That clearly did not happen in this case."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Huger wrote for instructions to Postmaster General Amos Kendall, as well as New York Postmaster Samuel Gouverneur, from whose office the offending literature had been shipped.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

The island’s censors would black out the offending passages in ink, but they later changed this when they realized we could wash away the ink and see what was underneath.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela