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Recent Examples of complaint The agreement, which was reached immediately after the Justice Department's complaint was filed, must be approved by a federal judge. CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025 Allen, who agreed to be named for this story, wrote the complaint Jan. 6 intending to file it in Manhattan federal court, but the suit has yet to be officially filed. Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025 Meanwhile, in failing to verify the age or identity of its users, Pump.Fun exposes minors and inexperienced investors to both financial risk and the explicit material rife on the platform, the complaint alleges. Joel Khalili, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025 The 179-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, named Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds, her husband, as defendants, as well as their publicist Leslie Sloane and her company, Vision PR. Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for complaint 
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Noun
  • Despite the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2019, remnants of the group and other militias continue to pose threats — with potential for resurgence if political and economic grievances remain unaddressed.
    James Durso, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Butler’s current seven-game suspension will cost Butler a total of about $2.4 million in salary, although the National Basketball Players Association intends to file a grievance to dispute the suspension in hopes of recouping some of that money.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Despite Magnus’ vehement objections, Agnes accepts an invitation from true crime podcaster Nora Carver to travel to Bifröst to discuss the murders on the anniversary.
    Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2025
  • This pressure reportedly allowed Witkoff to lean on the notoriously tough and canny Benjamin Netanyahu during talks and compel the Israeli prime minister to agree to a deal despite objections.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The indictment follows Yoon’s arrest ten days ago, when South Korean prosecutors finally succeeded in forcing him to surrender at his residence after a prolonged stand-off with his presidential bodyguard.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • That swab obtained long ago eventually led to Mr. Cady’s indictment last month on a first-degree murder charge in Ms. Searight’s death, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced in a news release on Thursday.
    Simon J. Levien, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • About 5,600 out of 56,000 workers are believed to have died from injury or disease during the U.S. phase of construction, according to the Panama Canal Authority, most of whom were from the Caribbean.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Talavera, Suchan and colleagues hope that using pollen signatures to map changing migration patterns could help to predict where fungal disease outbreaks might occur. Cuvelier, meanwhile, hopes to continue counting butterflies with his granddaughter.
    Saugat Bolakhe, JSTOR Daily, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • The ragged metallic roaring scream of a Boeing 727 ascending eastward, a high-pitched whine building to a thundering roar, fading to a drone.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • When in use, the motor produced a slightly audible whistle/whine.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Cohen is obviously fully on board with Stearns’ philosophy of limiting free agent deals to three years or fewer (the Soto contract of course being the notable exception).
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • As part of the agreement, GM will obtain affirmative customer consent to collect, use, or disclose certain types of connected vehicle data (with exceptions for certain purposes).
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Rhodes, who is serving an 18-year prison term, was outside the Capitol that day but was not convicted on any assault counts.
    Ella Lee, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
  • His Federal Register page count of 107,262 pages is the highest ever recorded, surpassed only by Obama’s pre-Trump regulatory surge.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.
    Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.
    Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025

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