impunity
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In October the nongovernmental organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity reported that a Mexican subsidiary of the state-owned oil company, Pemex, sent $3 billion of crude to Cuba between May and August.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
I was looking at CPJ’s Global Impunity Index, which states that about 80 percent of journalist killings go unpunished.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2025
Juan Francisco Sandoval, former head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity now in exile after being dismissed by Porras for his investigations, echoed Paz y Paz.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Until 2019, a widely praised United Nations-sponsored anticorruption investigatory body, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, which was founded in 2006, had remarkable success fighting organized crime and corruption.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023
Impunity reconciled him to his guilt: He began to resume his spirits; and as his fears of detection died away, He paid less attention to the reproaches of remorse.
From The Monk; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
Vocabulary lists containing impunity
"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Cask of Amontillado"
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The Scarlet Letter
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