abuse
Example Sentences
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The next month, Slater Slater Schulman ran more than 700 radio ads in Los Angeles seeking juvenile detention abuse claims, according to X Ante, a company that tracks mass tort advertisements.
From Los Angeles Times
This move changes how the federal government investigates Title IX abuses.
From Salon
Although some material was released, there were many redactions and other information was withheld - which angered Massie and his allies, as well as survivors of Epstein's abuse.
From BBC
New York’s Attorney General Eliot Spitzer discovered the worst of these abuses and failures in the wake of investors losing billions in the dot-com bubble.
Another local phenomenon is legal abuse, which affects insurance premiums and other business costs that ultimately get passed onto consumers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.