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rape

[reyp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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He did not take the stand, similar to his first trial in New York and his rape trial in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Specialist courts to handle cases of rape and other sexual offences will be introduced across England and Wales over the next two years, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Since the early 1970s, Steinem used her voice and influence to work toward legalizing safe abortions while championing survivors of rape and domestic violence and pushing for equal pay in the workplace.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Ms. would become known for spirited, frank coverage of subjects that were typically only spoken about quietly: workplace and domestic inequalities, domestic violence, homosexuality, racism, date rape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

This was the same year in which William Blake evoked England’s 'dark, Satanic mills* in his poem ‘Jerusalem’, but Beethoven's easy-listening Pastoral is not about the industrial rape of the countryside.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.

From Slate ● May 7, 2025

Petty thefts are up by roughly 14%, but other property crimes — along with homicides, robberies and rapes — are all down from the same period in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Most cases never make it as far as court: in 2021/22 there were 2,298 rape and attempted rapes reported to the police, but only 152 prosecutions and 78 convictions.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2023

These principalities would then roughly coincide with the modern rapes of Chichester, Arundel, Bramber, Lewes, Pevensey, and Hastings.

From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

A woman who alleged that Jay-Z raped her when she was 13 has said she made "false accusations" and never met the US rapper, according to a court filing seen Friday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Calocane, the inquiry was told, had attempted to force entry into a flat in the early hours, believing his mother was being raped inside the property, and was subsequently arrested.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

A period wherein science was raped by the metaphysicians, wherein physics became a search for the Philosopher's Stone, wherein chemistry became alchemy, and astronomy became astrology.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

In 2011, he received a Tony nomination for his role in The Scottsboro Boys, a musical based on the true story of nine Black teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Carroll sued Trump in November 2019 and seeks at least $10 million in damages over comments he made while in office that June after she first publicly accused him of raping her in the mid-1990s.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2023

Ex-Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of raping a woman and attempting to rape another at his home in Cheshire.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023

Former Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty at a retrial Friday of one count of raping a woman and the attempted rape of another woman.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 14, 2023

Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical tells the story of the 1913 trial of Leo Frank, a factory manager in Atlanta who was accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023




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