egregious
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U.S. inspectors found egregious conditions at two Chinese factories making key components for compounded GLP-1 drugs popular in America, including black mold and “gross contamination” at one plant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"This is no time to return anyone forcibly to a country plagued by egregious human rights violations and abuses," UN rights chief Volker Turk last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
But all of this is uncharted territory for Congress, as Briffault explained: “The problem is, the laws have never been significantly enforced because they’ve never been violated in such an egregious way,” he said.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
The US government has described it as the "most egregious criminal act on American soil in modern history".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
As they tried to absorb their lessons and experience, and to synchronize their efforts, they lived in constant fear of making any of the many egregious errors Bolles kept pointing out to them.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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