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victimize

[vik-tuh-mahyz] / ˈvɪk təˌmaɪz /


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Instead, like cowards, they cast around for weaker parties to victimize.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

"Belated fixes cannot undo this harm. We must hold Big Tech accountable for giving abusers the power to victimize women and girls at the click of a button," Ahmed said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026

“It’s called gift card draining and these scammers have found several slick ways to victimize unsuspecting shoppers,” Hahn said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

Microsoft said it discovered Russian cyberattackers leveraging the company’s conferencing platform to victimize espionage targets, including government accounts.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

But this attitude victimizes the honorable students who don’t cheat and suffer from comparatively lower grades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

“I’m concerned at the increase of these incidents, and assure the traveling public the FBI and our partners will continue to investigate and prosecute any offender who victimizes someone on a plane,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

A necessity to the incarcerated becomes yet another lucrative scheme that victimizes the very people it professes to help.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2023

“The strongest evidence deals with focusing on concentrations,” Mr. Stephens said, including crime that victimizes a small concentration of people.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022

If he victimizes you, you look upon him as upon a clever professor of legerdemain, who has cheated you in spite of your senses; but you hardly hold him morally responsible.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

At a state Senate committee hearing last month, Haney said the bill would allow “vulnerable animals, many of whom have been victimized, from beginning the recovery they deserve in stable, loving homes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The billionaire says ”I have never victimized anyone” and that it was a mistake to ever meet with Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

"I never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home. I have never victimized anyone," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Women are eight times as likely as men to be victimized by an intimate partner, and 85 percent of victims are women.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026

Under any normal circumstances he would have leapt to the defense of a man victimized as that man had been.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

While she wishes she didn’t have this story to tell, Yeager decided to share it to “make sure this kind of thing doesn’t keep victimizing others.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Minors are encouraged to save everything — including images, videos and texts — that will help criminal investigators go after the perpetrator and prevent them from victimizing more minors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

Tornadoes in the United States are disproportionately killing more people in mobile or manufactured homes, especially in the South, often victimizing some of the most socially and economically vulnerable residents.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

The Pierce County district attorney has enhanced the possible punishment for each charge by up to six years because she’s accused of victimizing someone 60 or older.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022

To be overcome with smoke, denotes that dangerous persons are victimizing you with flattery.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller




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