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Yet that’s also how Malone feels about the current climate of Hollywood — a once-stable neighborhood fending off malign forces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

In 1979 Americans immediately felt the malign effects of that year’s Islamic revolution, which replaced the autocratic but modernizing Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, previously said the arrests were part of "a long-running investigation" and "ongoing work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

Was it imagining on his part, Robbie wondered, or malign intent on hers, that made the adults' portions appear twice the size of the children's?

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Much like the recent reclaiming of the bimbo as empowering and gossip as an act of feminist resistance, her L.A. hot girl TikToks remove guilt from the pleasure of feminine hobbies that patriarchy maligns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

If a media organization knowingly and falsely maligns a public figure, the fact that it reported nice and true things elsewhere is no defense.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

The girls' family has also questioned the police's version, saying it maligns their daughters.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

Mr. Tal- mage, true to the fawning, cringing spirit of ortho- doxy, lauds the living queen and cruelly maligns the genius dead.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

For nearly 40 years as an attorney, he used that presence to fight for the maligned like few others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The author likens Grietje to the women of Salem and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, describing her as one of early America’s “unfairly and heinously maligned women.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Once maligned for taking on debt to fuel costly media acquisitions, AT&T has since sold off those units and refocused on core telecommunications activities.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026

Richly talented but much maligned, England captain Harry Brook finally achieved redemption at Pallekele stadium in Kandy after a torrid few months -- and came of age as a leader.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

Because ye know what I see when a lass is maligned for something she can’t help and yet she still shows up anyway?”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

CompassCare has responded by furiously maligning Kamke in public, an unusual way to treat a former patient.

From Slate ● May 28, 2024

The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge’s 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

FBI and Justice Department policy cautions against discussing ongoing investigations, both to protect the integrity of the inquiries and to avoid unfairly maligning someone who is being scrutinized but winds up ultimately not being charged.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

And when they lead harassment campaigns, they pick their targets wisely — often maligning public figures rather than private citizens, which gives them broader speech protections under the First Amendment.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022

Among the nobles, also, the Dukes of Suffolk and Buckingham, the lord Abergavenny, and others were glad of any pretext for maligning a pageant of which Wolsey had the prime direction.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter