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As for the residual costs of exercising her right to offend back in 2017, Griffin confirmed that some of her shows still draw protesters.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

"They rarely make public statements or organise events. I genuinely can't think of anything they could have done to offend the government."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

I don’t care if the officers caught on tape didn’t intend to offend, and I don’t care what Hochman intends the message to be with his vast over-charging of Flores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

He thinks women believe that "men should have less leg hair", which has prompted them to seek laser hair removal so as not to offend those around them.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

It would never do to offend Her Grace before he even opened his mouth.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Nabbing people as they wait for jobs as roofers or drywallers, or raiding hotels and farms as they do useful things and earn money for themselves and their families, offends natural sensibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

What also offends him is that marginalised communities are only talked about as statistics.

From BBC ● May 22, 2025

At the very least, that's not something that offends people.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024

Right now, platforms can take down vile and harmful content when it offends their terms of service.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2023

“The slightest air of disbelief offends it, naturally. How would you feel if people refused to believe in you?”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

Instead, the cybercriminals are asking the agency to retract an advisory that it issued about the gang, saying it was "offended" by its characterisation.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

And she was to discover that, despite Abah's remonstrations, and promises to change, he had apparently offended again.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“I’m sure they are deeply offended by my attempts, but yes, yes I do,” Losos says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“The subjective displeasure of an offended observer does not amount to a concrete injury,” Sauer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Benji didn’t care if he offended Laura Friendly.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

He later offered an apology for "offending some people".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then I thought to show my colleague’s offending email to an AI, which didn’t have all my baggage of past gripes with this co-worker or past indignation at being similarly dismissed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

In the 2025 audit, Baroness Louise Casey was asked by the government to establish the scale of group-based child sexual abuse offending in England and Wales.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Huger wrote for instructions to Postmaster General Amos Kendall, as well as New York Postmaster Samuel Gouverneur, from whose office the offending literature had been shipped.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Baby would wail, raising the offending arm or leg, and Olanna would stick a finger in her mouth and run it over Baby’s injury.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie