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The database cited the California penal code aimed at anyone who “willfully inflicts corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition” on a spouse, former spouse, live-in partner, fiancé or fiancée, former dating partner, or co-parent.

His daytime success and primetime failure illustrates the American media’s metamorphosis – a metamorphosis that inflicts immeasurable damage on public debate, and the democracy that it is supposed to enhance.

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The pain that Beckett inflicts on both women registers silently on his handsome craggy face.

I’m referring to Maher’s stab at diving into the supposed horrors so-called cancel culture inflicts on poor wealthy comedians with huge platforms and followings.

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Three homeless people and the nonprofit Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court, claiming the ordinance “banishes” homeless people and inflicts “cruel punishment” that violates Washington’s Constitution.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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