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rape

[rayp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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Jurors in the rape trial of Katie Price's ex-husband have been told to cut through the "big egos" and "big personalities" involved in the case before considering their verdicts.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I’m not saying we would have to go to a different standard with regard to consent in criminal rape law.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

One of those wrongly identified was a Chinese American whose LinkedIn profile identifies him as a New York-based finance professional who graduated from Cornell University in 2020 -- four years before the alleged rape.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Institutions would finally take claims of rape seriously, and young men would have a better understanding of consent and the consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

They were also told that Alshafe and Ahmadi entered the UK via small boat three months before the alleged rapes and that Al-Danasurt had entered the country a year before.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

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

In Ms. Willis’ first year as top prosecutor, Fulton County had 204 homicides, 284 rapes and over 1,000 robberies.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

Murders have declined more than 6%, rapes nearly 8%, robberies nearly 3%, burglaries about 8% and grand larcenies nearly 2%.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

In some counties there is an intermediate division, between the shire and the hundreds, as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex, each of them containing about three or four hundreds apiece.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone

That she’s speaking out about it puts one more crack in the lie that women who are raped should carry any shame.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

Earlier this year, ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos appeared on the network’s “This Week” news program and asserted that Trump was found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai has broken down in court after being cleared of raping a fan at an after-show party.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024

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

The New York jury on Tuesday cleared Mr. Trump of raping Ms. Carroll in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.

From Washington Times ● May 10, 2023


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