offend

Example Sentences

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Referees are told to wait until an offending player is back on their feet before they show a card.

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Meanwhile the 20-minute red card is designed to make sure that the offending player is punished rather than the paying punter.

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It's clear the government needs to navigate these issues thoroughly to avoid the revolving door of offending, conviction and jail.

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The offending happened at a nursery in Surrey between July and August 2024.

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The commissioner warned against using "grooming gangs" as a catch-all term because offending includes abuse within families, in institutions, between peers and online.

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