foul play
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A statement from the Premier League Match Centre said: "The referee's call of yellow card to Havertz was checked and confirmed by VAR – with the challenge deemed not to be serious foul play."
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The Sierra Madre Police Department said Saturday that a man — at that point unidentified — died after having a medical emergency on the trail and that no foul play was suspected.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
“But obviously the pattern of foul play continues,” Bouchouev said in an email to MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
In one viral TikTok video, members of a senior-living community accuse their ex-friend of foul play: taking tiles out of turn and refusing to reveal her “winning” hands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
No one yet had accused Holmes of foul play, but the intensity of this new wave of inquiry was greater, more obliquely accusatory, than anything he previously had experienced.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
