victimize
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Instead, like cowards, they cast around for weaker parties to victimize.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Belated fixes cannot undo this harm. We must hold Big Tech accountable for giving abusers the power to victimize women and girls at the click of a button," Ahmed said.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Microsoft said it discovered Russian cyberattackers leveraging the company’s conferencing platform to victimize espionage targets, including government accounts.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
“Just gutless people trying to continue to victimize Gloria’s siblings and children.”
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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But this attitude victimizes the honorable students who don’t cheat and suffer from comparatively lower grades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
“Sending migrants to our cities, whose systems are over capacity, where they may struggle to find shelter and other services is wrong and further victimizes these most vulnerable individuals,” they wrote.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2023
“The strongest evidence deals with focusing on concentrations,” Mr. Stephens said, including crime that victimizes a small concentration of people.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Not really, because both suits distinguish between what real media does and what media scams and hatchet jobs do, and how the latter victimizes literal bystanders.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2018
He works bitter ruin for the cannibals, who, with all their strength and fleetness, are no better endowed with quick wit than the Trolls, whom Boots invariably victimizes.
From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske
The women said they were victimized by Leto between 2002 and 2016.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Last year, a state appellate court ruled that it was illegal for CPS to subject survivors of domestic violence to surveillance solely because they had been victimized.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The billionaire says ”I have never victimized anyone” and that it was a mistake to ever meet with Jeffrey Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"I never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home. I have never victimized anyone," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Geeks who are harassed and humiliated should report the assaults and, perhaps using the possibilities of the Net, take their complaints farther if they are ignored or further victimized.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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“It’s a large volume for just a couple of subjects. Our concern is that this fraud could be replicated by other individuals that are out there victimizing other people in similar schemes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
While she wishes she didn’t have this story to tell, Yeager decided to share it to “make sure this kind of thing doesn’t keep victimizing others.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Tornadoes in the United States are disproportionately killing more people in mobile or manufactured homes, especially in the South, often victimizing some of the most socially and economically vulnerable residents.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Carlton Huffman, 39, came forward and shared his side of the story Wednesday in a nearly 11-minute-long video posted on social media, saying he has done so to stop Mr. Schlapp from victimizing others.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
He had always disliked the man; now he malignantly resented his very existence; Mahr became the personification of the thing he most wished to forget--the victimizing power of the woman who had enthralled him.
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
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