unlawfully
Example Sentences
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The Times still sued the city, alleging that it unlawfully withheld and deleted the mayor’s text messages and other public records from the catastrophic wildfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Employees waited over five years for the board to decide whether they had been unlawfully removed from their positions.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
He was previously sentenced to two concurrent 12-month prison terms for unlawfully accessing people's confidential NHS information - including Angharad's.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Barbara, the chief justice and Justice Barrett joined the liberal bloc in holding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship to U.S.-born children whose parents are in the country unlawfully or temporarily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Nor did they at first, in general, contemplate availing themselves of the invention unlawfully.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
