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offender

[uh-fen-der] / əˈfɛn dər /


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When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Last week, the Bulwark reported that one of his campaign ads featured Ramaswamy meeting with a registered sex offender.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Separately, after stopping a vehicle in Bedfordshire, the 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Warwickshire Police said despite "extensive enquiries… an offender could not be identified".

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Schirach’s successor, Artur Axmann, was sentenced to thirty-nine months’ imprisonment as a major offender and fined 35,000 marks.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Courts have already sent 217 people, half of them first-time offenders, to prison over the events on Saturday, officials said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

"Refusing to turn up to sentencing is an insult to victims and their families, and offenders must face the consequences", she added.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Bafflingly, repertory screenings are where I’ve run into some of the worst offenders.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Last year, Lynd Fruit Farm in Pataskala, Ohio, warned visitors it would call the sheriff’s office on offenders who hid their pickings at checkout, reporting apple thefts of $80, $160 and $400 at a time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Another Reagan appointee, Judge Stanley Marshall, told a reporter, “I’ve always been considered a fairly harsh sentencer, but it’s killing me that I’m sending so many low-level offenders away for all this time.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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