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
Europe has also expressed concern about "unsafe" non-EU products such as toys that violate the bloc's rules arriving via Chinese e-commerce platforms.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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
District Judge David O. Carter ruled that the administration’s allegations were “not credible” and that the intervention it sought would violate a host of federal laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Part of my job involved poring over scripts for our clients’ TV and radio ads, making sure they didn't violate Federal Communications Commission standards.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Zoe nearly destroys Rushville to save herself, while John almost violates his principles to seize the ring from Hal, per the Guardians’ orders, and take out Zoe.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The organisation, which wants an end to IPPs, said the sentence "violates serious human rights".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Hadley wanted to remind potential jumpers that the act of leaping from the cliffs violates a San Diego municipal code and could result in fines of $100 or more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Seoul's National Security Office, meanwhile, said the launches violated UN Security Council resolutions, labelling them "serious acts that do nothing to help manage the current situation".
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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
The owners of the rights to music by Elvis Presley have sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic, claiming in court that the company violated copyright law by using Elvis music to train its AI model Claude.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“They’ve violated the entire premise of that information-sharing relationship,” said one former high-ranking federal cybersecurity official who now advises state governments on national security.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
He had violated no orders, and no one could prove his motive was anything other than protecting his men.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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By violating the truce, Moscow would have risked undermining its own efforts to cultivate the crucial relationship with her husband, US President Donald Trump.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
She had just completed her sentence, a six-meeting ban—12 weeks in absentia—after violating various rules during the public comment portion.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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
The second principle is that backshifting is not mandatory, which means that violating the sequence-of-tense rules and keeping the reported content in the present tense is not always an error.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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