violate
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When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its "community guidelines".
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026
His lawyer, Adam Unikowsky, argued that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment by authorizing a search of every single person's account to find who was within a geofence perimeter.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
The cameras violate privacy rights, opponents said, and are ripe for misuse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
They alleged she violated her duty and responsibility as a faculty member by directing and encouraging students to violate university policies that regulate free speech on campus and promote diversity and equal opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
These connections, which drape themselves from the limbs of one tree to the limbs of another, violate the neatly nested, branch-within-branch geometry of a tree.2 I’ll call them arcs of coherence.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing violate
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