violate
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“If you violate federal election law,” he warned, “I will hunt you down and prosecute you.”
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
In the months since, media groups have denounced the department for continuing to violate the order, which has deepened the tensions between police leaders and the press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Nvidia CEO Huang told Bloomberg Thursday that the company verified that Megaspeed hasn’t sent its artificial-intelligence chips to China, which would violate U.S. trade restrictions.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Last month, Amazon blocked Muse from its site, with users shown a notice saying unauthorized AI agents violate Amazon’s conditions of use.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
He suffers but at least he isn’t required to violate his own identity.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Because five exceeds twice the true distance of two, the result violates the "at most twice" accuracy guarantee.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Despite all the public discourse around loneliness and the need to connect, the cold call violates some of the communication norms we’ve spent decades developing.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
The organisation, which wants an end to IPPs, said the sentence "violates serious human rights".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
But some administrators haven’t gotten the memo, and on Tuesday the Justice Department sued the school district in Kansas City, Kan., arguing its internal guidance violates the law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The quantum hypothesis violates everything our everyday experience tells us.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Leanne Duff, from Plymouth, Devon, said she felt "violated" after every room in her house was damaged in April, including her 13-year-old son's bedroom.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
"In either case, this attack seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law."
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The state is asking the court to find that Chiquite Canyon’s operators violated several Hazardous Waste Control Laws, which would open them to civil penalties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
In a video Waltz posted online Tuesday, Tur de la Concepcion is seen smacking the cellphone recording him and saying, “he violated my personal space.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The justices said there was insufficient evidence to show the three producers were aware they could be violating Crichton's contractual rights.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The same was done on the Weibo app, with a notice stating that "the user has been banned from following due to violating laws or the Weibo Community Convention".
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission hit the company, then known as Facebook, with a record $5-billion fine for violating the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement over privacy practices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
It argued that Alaska somehow was violating federal law when it allowed a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against the incumbent with the same name and Democrat Mary Peltola.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
The penalty for violating the pass laws was thirty days in jail or a fine of fifty rand, nearly half her monthly salary.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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