violence
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The judge said the defense psychologist and doctor relied on Lavie’s accounts, but there was little documentation to support her mental health claims and back her allegations of abuse and violence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The deal’s collapse and resulting burst of violence led the administration to reconsider its approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Following European contact in the 15th century, Indigenous populations across the Americas declined dramatically because of disease, famine, violence, conflict and the rapid loss of genetic diversity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Zoë Billingham, a former independent police inspector who pushed for reforms on how violence against women in girls is policed, said that "too often in cases like this the dots aren't being joined up".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
John Gutfreund had done violence to the Wall Street social order—and got himself dubbed the King of Wall Street—when, in 1981, he’d turned Salomon Brothers from a private partnership into Wall Street’s first public corporation.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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