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accuse

[uh-kyooz] / əˈkjuz /


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Klobuchar: I’m going to begin my questions now, but I think people should have their facts straight before they accuse someone of being a “dirtbag” and not get the teams wrong.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

They accuse doomers of being a front for companies seeking to use regulation to crush rivals.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Yet this is the same news release that Ms. Noem used to accuse the men of attempted murder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Some viewers used screenshots of the offer to accuse JapanLA of gouging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

To tell Rekh would mean accusing Gebu, and to accuse Gebu...

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The filing accuses the government of “head-in-the-sand disregard for UCLA’s recent reforms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The lawsuit also accuses two men in Peru of painting fakes bearing Warhol’s signature and shipping canvases resembling Warhol’s 1983 portfolio of endangered species to Roberts’s gallery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

And early next year, a trial is scheduled to begin in a case that accuses Amazon of illegally maintaining a monopoly in online retail.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

The complaint accuses Amazon of secretly charging advertisers more in so-called "second price" auctions, whereby prospective advertisers expect to pay one cent more than the next highest bidder for each bid they win.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The occasional dissenter accuses me of betraying my fellow officers and being a rat, asserting that “what goes on in corrections should stay in corrections.”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

It’s not enough that she saw no charges filed, or that reportedly only two of the accused were expelled from campus.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

He also accused McConnell staff of attracting mosquitoes to Mr. McConnell’s home to attack people staked outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Indian authorities have accused the 39-year-old of having a role in a series of targeted killings of religious and political figures - allegations which he denies.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Neither Ivan nor I were explicitly told that we were the individuals whose names are concealed in the indictment against those accused of carrying out the assassination plot," Kasparov said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Northern congressmen, led by Fisher Ames of Massachusetts, accused him of threatening the survival of the republic by blocking the centerpiece of Hamilton's fiscal program, without which, they believed, the union would dissolve.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

ShinyHunters first demanded that the bureau amend a public service announcement accusing the group of using “harassment strategies” and “pressure tactics” to extort victims.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Last year, Optimum sued the creditors, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by illegally coordinating to fix debt prices and blocking it from doing the debt financing transactions it wanted to do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

That ended in an African Union-brokered peace deal but over recent months both sides have been accusing each other of violating the agreement.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The attorney for the woman accusing Byron Scott of sexual assault says the former Laker’s bankruptcy filing is a “pathetic and cowardly” attempt to dodge his civil trial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

We were less and less convinced that the man he was accusing of committing the crime was involved.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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