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lawbreaking

NOUN
felony
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To clarify this debate, we must distinguish between speech and lawbreaking.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

Allowing the group to stay would reward its lawbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2025

That’s because it lacks a critical deterrent in white collar crime cases: criminal charges against TD’s top executives who were in place while the lawbreaking was in full cry.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2024

A scathing House Ethics report found “overwhelming evidence” of lawbreaking by Santos, including questionable campaign expenditures on items like Botox.

From Seattle Times Dec. 1, 2023

Moral deterioration follows from the bad habits formed, from the encouragement to lawbreaking and independence of parental authority, and from the evil environment of the people and places with which they come into contact.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe




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