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rape

[rayp] / reɪp /


VERB
to assault sexually
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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

Cornell said that Sally Yates, who served as deputy US attorney general from 2015 to 2017 and briefly led the Justice Department, would conduct a "detailed review" of the university's response to the rape allegations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

She accused them of rape only after being disinvited from the fraternity’s Halloween party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Here, Fennell asserts that rape culture is our culture, that patriarchy and misogyny seep through the cracks of every single surface.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 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

Enough said its wording on the number of rapes a year in the UK now referred to the "estimated" number, and that its kits "can in principle be admissible in court".

From BBC ● May 19, 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

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

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

UK rapper Yung Filly has been found not guilty of raping a fan after performing at a nightclub in Australia in 2024.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

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

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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