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as in bullied
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon
if you abuse your pet, he will always have an ugly disposition
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as in attacked
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
a demanding, difficult patient who constantly abuses the nurses and aides
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as in misused
to put to a bad or improper use
if you abuse your baseball bat by using it to hammer nails, don't expect it to last long
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as in exploited
to take unfair advantage of
abused his parents' trust, pilfering small amounts from them that he hoped they wouldn't notice
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Recent Examples of abused
Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Graphic contemporary news footage shows Mussolini’s ignominious end, when his abused corpse was publicly flayed by anyone who wanted to take a whack at it.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
Annie Nova, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
After two years of being locked up and systematically abused by Arkham’s squad of guards led by Jackie Sullivan (Brendan Gleeson), Arthur has become an unsmiling, even more gaunt shell of his former self.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
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Her narrative feature debut, which has its world premiere at TIFF on Sept. 11, has Beverly-Jean, an abused wife played by Olunike Adeliyi, making no calls to police or crisis centers, nor enduring a life of emotional or physical abuse in silence.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Graphic contemporary news footage shows Mussolini’s ignominious end, when his abused corpse was publicly flayed by anyone who wanted to take a whack at it.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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However, low-wage workers and labor advocates say the practice is often abused, leaving workers in a precarious and worse-off situation.
—Annie Nova, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
After two years of being locked up and systematically abused by Arkham’s squad of guards led by Jackie Sullivan (Brendan Gleeson), Arthur has become an unsmiling, even more gaunt shell of his former self.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
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The defendant had told police that Connor was bullied and had threatened to take his life.Landon Mion, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Attendance plummeted during the record-losing season, and the media bullied Reinsdorf, imploring him to cash out.Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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While on the ground, Evans is shot twice more with bean bag rounds and attacked twice by a police dog as Evans screams.Christian Martinez, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Roving gangs on scooters attacked and beat Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, overnight in an outburst of what authorities called antisemitic violence.Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Amos’ daughter also claimed that her brother had impersonated their dad in communications, disregarded his medical needs, mishandled his finances and exploited and eroded his legacy.Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
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Instead, these innovations were exploited by others who saw potential.Dileep Rao, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Helene’s aftermath At least 213 people have died since Hurricane Helene slammed the Southeast more than a week ago.Alexandra Banner, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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Advocates for student loan borrowers slammed the decision.Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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The length of a prison sentence in Arizona can depend on factors like prior convictions and whether a weapon was used, but the act would lengthen the terms regardless.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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Born in revolution, tempered by war This gun served in the American Civil War and was later used in many conflicts throughout the 19th century.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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In that case, too, the final agreement wasn’t over whether their work could ever be manipulated by AI—special effects have existed in movies for a long time, after all—but whether the creator has an informed say in it.Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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Are the questions and indicators that prompted a computer system creative, or is something creative when only human hands and eyes have directly manipulated it?Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Authorities are investigating a shooting that left two people injured early Saturday morning in Union City.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Kenney, who came to The Farm from Fargo, North Dakota but spent his first three years either injured or backing up current Los Angeles Rams kicker Joshua Karty, then nailed a career-best kick on Senior Day, sending the players and a small group of students storming onto the field.Harold Gutmann, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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The distribution of Pandas in a Pennsylvania public school district led to a 2005 district court decision that determined the school board had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
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And can anyone even count at this point how many times characters on this show have violated HIPAA?Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Abused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abused. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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