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“I think you’ll see a challenge there — that there’s just been an overreach and abuse of this particular statute,” Hillman said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Strict agency rules have long required an open bidding process whenever possible to guard against waste, fraud and abuse.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

As an adult running a “high-risk” Christian ministry, Marx says he rescued 45,000 women and children from captivity and abuse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Similar programs created by local governments to encourage potential retirees to stay on the job have been costly and rife with abuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

But I ask you: how much more abuse must the apostrophe endure?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

Now he’s looking for that kind of “momentum,” to solve this most stubborn of abuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Davies hopes the documentary raises awareness of the harm caused by hidden spy cameras and reinforces that abuses of privacy and "consent should never be normalised".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Cuba currently has about 24,000 medical workers deployed globally, said Maria Werlau, director of Cuba Archive, which closely tracks labor abuses in the missions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

The American journalist threw out questions to El Jefe about his policies regarding political prisoners and the recent OAS charges of human rights abuses.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Then last month, the monitor claimed Fain abused his power to benefit his fiancée.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"It is the state that has progressively abused the process."

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Although some cruelty cases already have a mechanism to allow forfeiture of an animal, Haney’s bill seeks to make it easier for abused animals to move on from the shelter system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The EU said Google abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison-shopping service in search results and demoting those of competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

It looked eerily similar in design to the boys’ locker room at Burnt Mill Creek High School, except this one was just a little more battered and abused.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

The commission, the 27-nation bloc's antitrust regulator, had accused Google of abusing the popularity of its Android operating system to restrict competition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

A court-appointed monitor accused Fain of abusing his power to benefit his fiancée, an allegation now under investigation by the Justice Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.

From Slate ● May 29, 2026

As such, robust data is lacking - but the Department for Education's statistics show how many times pupils have been suspended for abusing others.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

But after he left Miss Ransom’s house and stood for a half hour watching Bud and C.T. abusing each other at checkers, he decided to check Sheila out right fast and quit for the day.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison