violate

Example Sentences

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“You’re asking us to violate confidentiality agreements,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Others say history and the text are clear in demonstrating that Mississippi doesn’t violate federal law.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

The district attorney said the text messages would help prove “that intent to defraud, that intent to commit money laundering, this intent to violate our conflict of interest laws.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

This case presented a strikingly simple question: Does it violate a journalist’s First Amendment rights if they are arrested for requesting and publishing information that a government employee willingly hands over?

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

It was the face of a man of hardened integrity who could no more consciously violate the moral principles on which his virtue rested than he could transform himself into a despicable toad.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller