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Recent Examples of victimize The school is so small that nearly half of the high school’s female students were victimized in the images and videos. Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 About 50 people rallied outside the federal courthouse Monday morning in freezing temperatures to show their support for women who've said they were victimized by Golubski. CBS News, 2 Dec. 2024 Recent triggers may have rhymed a lot with past scenarios that left you feeling victimized, and that’s definitely the kind of thing that can lead to a trauma response. Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024 Police are asking members of the public who believe they may have been victimized by Nam or those with information related to the case to call the SRPD DVSA tipline at (707) 543-3595. Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for victimize 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for victimize
Verb
  • There’s a scene where the duo is trying to get their rent money back from Alyssa’s conniving and cheating boyfriend, which perfectly encapsulates the blend of wit and physical comedy that makes the film so memorable.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 21 Jan. 2025
  • West Virginia was also willing to cheat off of Keshon Gilbert.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • For Hodge, having to squat naked and pluck out her eye was nothing compared with what would follow.
    Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • More than 750 northern tidewater gobies were plucked from a lagoon ravaged by the Palisades fire and transferred to aquariums.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • Jair Bolsonaro’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Card: The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, is looking to Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to shift his nation’s politics — and maybe keep him a free man.
    Ruth Maclean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2025
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  • One day later Miami would kick off its plans for 2025 right by landing former Georgia starting quarterback Carson Beck in the transfer portal (more on that in a bit), but, still, this Orange Bowl had to sting Cristobal over all that might have been.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • That loss hurt, of course, and losing the Super Bowl this time around would sting, too.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 6 Jan. 2025
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  • With a zero-to-60 time below 4 seconds, a quarter-mile time around 12 seconds, and a 155 mph top speed, the coupe clearly hustles.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
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  • Some even provide fake documents to help scammers deceive others.
    Ryan Nawrocki, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2025
  • On the other hand, disinformation is misleading or false information shared with the intent to deceive.
    Jill Hopke, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Credit Suisse and its subsidiary, based in Britain, admitted to defrauding a number of U.S. and international investors in the financing of an $850 million loan in October 2021.
    Shayla Colon, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
  • This included almost 85,000 borrowers who attended schools that cheated and defrauded their students, 61,000 borrowers with total and permanent disabilities, and 6,100 public service workers.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • He has been routinely beaten on the glass by younger, bouncier players who are creating second-chance opportunities with offensive rebounds.
    Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Chicken Selects / Tenders Made of white breast meat with a peppery, crispy coating, Chicken Selects beat McNuggets any day of the week.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Victimize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/victimize. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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