How to Use nonconsensual in a Sentence

nonconsensual

adjective
  • The fact that the person complied with the request does not render the encounter nonconsensual.
    NBC News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • But the consensual/nonconsensual aspect of this is the key part of it.
    David Marchese, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2021
  • In Maryland, the crimes of first-degree rape and second-degree rape cover a range of nonconsensual acts that can involve the use of an object.
    Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • In Maryland, the crimes of first-degree rape and second-degree rape — both felonies — cover a range of nonconsensual acts that can involve the body or use of an object.
    Dan Morse, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • While deepfake videos have been around for more than half a decade—mostly used for nonconsensual pornography—they’re often glitchy and easy to spot.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The actors union has kept its focus on a bill to outlaw nonconsensual deepfakes.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • At the time in January, nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift had just gone viral, and the subject was widely covered in the news.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The nonconsensual disclosure of such images isn't just schoolboy fun -- any more than the LA officers were just doing their job.
    Danielle Keats Citron, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Journal notes there has been no allegation that the encounter was nonconsensual.
    Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In California, laws have been brought in to try to counter the potential for deepfakes to be used in an election campaign and in nonconsensual pornography.
    Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But many schools no longer require women to say or signal no in order for an encounter to be considered nonconsensual.
    Emily Yoffe, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Protocols could be put in place to screen for and remove child abuse content and nonconsensual pornography from databases.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Though Iceland had signed a pair of treaties that banned nonconsensual sterilization, neither had been ratified and the law still allowed it for the mentally ill.
    Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The company stopped its nonconsensual tracking after it was exposed by a researcher in 2011, court papers said.
    NBC News, 22 Mar. 2021
  • For victims of nonconsensual pornography, the vast majority of whom are women, any law that provides means of legal recourse will come as good news.
    Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 24 July 2019
  • Over the past few years, the up and coming star Hammer has been accused of engaging in abusive behavior and nonconsensual acts by several women.
    Luise Borner, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Many interpretations posit that the encounter, which took place in Athena’s temple, was nonconsensual, and that Poseidon raped Medusa.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The move comes days after the UK government announced plans for a new law that will make creating nonconsensual deepfakes a criminal offense.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 19 Apr. 2024
  • It’s not until Greg body-swaps with his pet dog, via a bit of nonconsensual rainbow spirit magic, that mother and son can have a real, honest moment together.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • But whether the video is pitched as heartwarming or sadistic, the customer is enlisting the driver into a nonconsensual pageant that doubles as a performance review.
    New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • There’s drama, jealousy, and even nonconsensual make out videos involved.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Hutchinson, 63, was charged with one count of rape of an unconscious person and five misdemeanors counts of nonconsensual touching, Orange County Dist.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • Kruth denied the allegations that the encounters had been nonconsensual, according to the Times.
    Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Budden, like many of his male counterparts, don’t see nonconsensual condom removal as a problem.
    Ashley Cobb, Essence, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Evashevski resigned and Samuel Fahr, chairman of Iowa’s athletics board, declared the four-year extension was unsigned, nonconsensual with the board and invalid.
    Scott Dochterman, ajc, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Cirrincione issued a statement to the Post, both supporting the Me Too climate and denying any of his relationships were nonconsensual.
    Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The kiss is clearly nonconsensual, a grim fictionalization of rape culture and the kind of brutish behavior so many people suffer even in our current non-apocalypse.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • His lawyer said Spacey denies all allegations of nonconsensual acts and suggested the accusers are looking for payouts from the Hollywood star.
    Brian Melley, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • Strict rules against filming performances were designed to protect actors from nonconsensual broadcasts of their work.
    Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2020
  • Researchers say while some women agree to mock abductions out of tradition, many others are nonconsensual.
    NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022

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