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rape

[rayp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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She accused them of rape only after being disinvited from the fraternity’s Halloween party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Here, Fennell asserts that rape culture is our culture, that patriarchy and misogyny seep through the cracks of every single surface.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Many of the students on campus now weren’t enrolled at the time of the alleged rape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

He did not take the stand, similar to his first trial in New York and his rape trial in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.

From Slate ● May 7, 2025

Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Most cases never make it as far as court: in 2021/22 there were 2,298 rape and attempted rapes reported to the police, but only 152 prosecutions and 78 convictions.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023

The 2022 annual report from the City of Atlanta Police Department shows violent crime — homicides, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults — decreased 9% from 2021 to 2022.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

In some counties there is an intermediate division between the shire and the hundred, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex, each of them containing about three or four hundreds a-piece.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 322, July 12, 1828 by Various

A woman who alleged that Jay-Z raped her when she was 13 has said she made "false accusations" and never met the US rapper, according to a court filing seen Friday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Edafe told Channels: "We have spoken to four girls and all of them said nobody raped them."

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

But with the sense that she had impiously raped her joy from the heavens themselves came the exultation that not even the gods could ever take that from her.

From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long

In 2011, he received a Tony nomination for his role in The Scottsboro Boys, a musical based on the true story of nine Black teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Carroll sued Trump in November 2019 and seeks at least $10 million in damages over comments he made while in office that June after she first publicly accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2023

Mr Malkinson was found guilty in 2004 of raping a woman in Greater Manchester and only had his conviction quashed last month at the Court of Appeal.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023

Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty at a retrial Friday of one count of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another woman.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical tells the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a factory manager in Atlanta who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023




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