abuse
Example Sentences
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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.
An 11-year-old double amputee has raised £120,000 to take a group of children affected by abuse to visit Lapland over the festive period.
From BBC
Impressive world building gives a visceral texture to the environment that reflects the prickly emotions by those used, abused and cast off, who then reclaim their power by banding together.
From Salon
Bobi Wine defended Ampe, saying he was using social media to "expose corruption, abuse of power, oppression of lower ranking officers and other evils within the Uganda Prisons Service".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
