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To make things trickier, Dexter must balance his extralegal affairs with a new forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
However, by then, there seemed to be some growing political and legal blowback for these extralegal expulsions.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
This contemporary dispossession of Indigenous people fits into the long and violent history in which legal and extralegal measures are taken by those in power to forcibly remove Indigenous inhabitants from their land.
—Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
Brazil’s right-wing populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro sought to undermine the country’s democratic institutions after his election as president in 2018 but narrowly lost his bid for reelection in 2022 (and failed in his extralegal effort to overturn the result).
—Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
However, by then, there seemed to be some growing political and legal blowback for these extralegal expulsions.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
This contemporary dispossession of Indigenous people fits into the long and violent history in which legal and extralegal measures are taken by those in power to forcibly remove Indigenous inhabitants from their land.
—Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
Brazil’s right-wing populist strongman Jair Bolsonaro sought to undermine the country’s democratic institutions after his election as president in 2018 but narrowly lost his bid for reelection in 2022 (and failed in his extralegal effort to overturn the result).
—Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Extralegal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extralegal. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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extralegal
adjective
ex·tra·le·gal
ˌek-strə-ˈlē-gəl 
: not regulated or sanctioned by law
extralegally
adverb
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