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rape

[reyp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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He spent 23 years in prison before his 1999 rape conviction was vacated after his DNA was not detected in any of the blood or semen samples found at the scene.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Yet eight months after that, the judge in his rape case issued a pretrial ruling in which she ordered prosecutors to honor the defendant’s “preferred pronouns.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Platner, a Marine veteran whose blunt anti-establishment message thrilled the progressive grassroots, quit the race after a rape allegation he denies.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

A New York judge declared a mistrial in disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape case in its third trial, after a jury said “no one is going to change where they stand.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 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

They were also told that Alshafe and Ahmadi entered the UK via small boat three months before the alleged rapes and that Al-Danasurt had entered the country a year before.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

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

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

At the same time a harvest-wagon, loaded with rapes and drawn by four horses, came into the yard.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

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

She thought of having an abortion, which is legally permitted in Ethiopia up to 12 weeks into pregnancy if a woman is raped, but she was scared.

From BBC Nov. 18, 2025

But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2024

Former President Trump is suing TV journalist George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for defamation for saying he raped advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2024

A period wherein science was raped by the metaphysicians, wherein physics became a search for the Philosopher's Stone, wherein chemistry became alchemy, and astronomy became astrology.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

In her first lawsuit, Carroll accused Trump of defaming her when he insulted her and denied raping her in a department-store dressing room in the 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Prosecutor Deanna Heer KC told the court Mosquera's "detailed" defence statement produced for the trial made no "mention of Albert Alfonso raping you".

From BBC Oct. 24, 2025

Earlier this year, ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos appeared on the network’s “This Week” news program and asserted that Trump was found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2025

The New York jury on Tuesday cleared Mr. Trump of raping Ms. Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.

From Washington Times May 10, 2023

Michael Ferrera, another of Carroll's attorneys, said Trump "just decided not to be here. He never looked you in the eye and denied raping Ms. Carroll."

From Salon May 9, 2023




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