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recidivist

noun as in fallen angel

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Overall numbers on recidivist crimes are hard to establish because the Russian government restricts the release of any public information that puts the war in a bad light.

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The court ordered Navalny to serve the new term in a “special regime” penal colony, where men given life sentences or “especially dangerous recidivists” are sent.

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Incidents this year “fit the pattern of recidivist behavior,” and there’s a chance that those convicts would have committed crimes again upon release, even if they hadn’t been recruited by Wagner, the expert said.

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Boteler said, “If we can catch them early, maybe we can stop them from becoming recidivists.”

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From time to time, a regulator will call foul on recidivist corporate wrongdoers.

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