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Nandy opted not to issue an “intervention notice” after striking an agreement with Paramount that provides “assurances and legally-binding commitments” that the company would not abuse its market clout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But that’s not all that happened; the op-ed acted as a dog whistle, bringing out a torrent of abuse.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

To be sure, Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse – such as providers billing Medicaid for services that are unnecessary or never rendered – are very real problems that cost taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

“They’re not actually filing any criminal charges where we can challenge the vagueness, the overreach and the abuse of that statute,” said Regan, the civil-rights attorney.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Because if there’s one thing I know, it’s that Cinna would never have approved the abuse of these three, who he managed with gentleness and patience.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

She went on to be the UN rights chief, a sensitive role in which she alienated some countries, especially China, which mauled her for reporting on Beijing's alleged abuses of the country's Uyghur minority group.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Now he’s looking for that kind of “momentum,” to solve this most stubborn of abuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Davies hopes the documentary raises awareness of the harm caused by hidden spy cameras and reinforces that abuses of privacy and "consent should never be normalised".

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Cuba currently has about 24,000 medical workers deployed globally, said Maria Werlau, director of Cuba Archive, which closely tracks labor abuses in the missions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Every schoolchild knew of the information abuses that nearly brought down civilization before the Thunderhead condensed into power.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Blair, whose IMDb site lists dozens of movies and television shows dating back to 1968, founded the Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation in 2003 to rehabilitate and rescue abandoned and abused animals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he wanted to "forgive" protesters who abused him during recent youth-led demonstrations that dealt a rare political setback to his government.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

“The trial court abused its discretion by considering incompetent evidence in support of the temporary injunction,” the three-judge panel wrote.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

The tension on “The French Chef” was about a massacred bûche de noël or whether that roast-chicken-to-come was being abused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Oppression occurred, he saw, when governments and most people simply ignored the poor or, worse, abused them.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Being born with good genes and not abusing them, along with remaining active can be a big plus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The commission, the 27-nation bloc's antitrust regulator, had accused Google of abusing the popularity of its Android operating system to restrict competition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

A federal jury in Manhattan in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll and ordered him to pay $5 million in damages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Far from abusing the courts with frivolous appeals, the exonerees we interviewed described being thwarted at every attempt due to appellate and postconviction processes that prioritize procedural regularity over the substance of their innocence claims.

From Slate ● May 29, 2026

"Stop abusing the dead for your own selfish ends," I said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison