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Recent Examples of abuser
The agency's official account accused Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang, a human trafficker, domestic abuser, and child predator—allegations his legal team has repeatedly denied.
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Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Any therapeutic visitation must be worked in as part of a trauma focused therapy only at the time the child is ready to confront their abuser.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Those who file a complaint, Duberli explains, can continue their immigration process without the abuser’s involvement or knowledge.
—Juliana Jiménez J, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Authorities allege Devonte Green was a serial abuser who attacked three different girlfriends and shot one of their friends in the leg who was trying to protect her.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
The Grammy nominee discovered an article describing how the former Cowboys star inserted himself in her beef with Meek Mill in 2020, and then took things further by calling him an abuser due to allegations of him harming his mother.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 11 Aug. 2025
When survivors or victims enter the shelter, many of them are on the same cell phone plan as the abuser, said Latesha Van, executive vice president of victim services at SafeHaven of Tarrant County.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2025
Amanda Castro
hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
Any therapeutic visitation must be worked in as part of a trauma focused therapy only at the time the child is ready to confront their abuser.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Those who file a complaint, Duberli explains, can continue their immigration process without the abuser’s involvement or knowledge.
—Juliana Jiménez J, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Authorities allege Devonte Green was a serial abuser who attacked three different girlfriends and shot one of their friends in the leg who was trying to protect her.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
The Grammy nominee discovered an article describing how the former Cowboys star inserted himself in her beef with Meek Mill in 2020, and then took things further by calling him an abuser due to allegations of him harming his mother.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 11 Aug. 2025
When survivors or victims enter the shelter, many of them are on the same cell phone plan as the abuser, said Latesha Van, executive vice president of victim services at SafeHaven of Tarrant County.
—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for abuser
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Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The documentary tells the true story of a teenage couple relentlessly bullied via text by an anonymous harasser.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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That is a nasty process which involves digging up Ambar’s still-fresh corpse, then subjecting it to various grisly indignities night after night as retribution gets visited upon our heroine’s persecutors.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Using it to describe this week’s attack on Huwara – or other similar attacks in Israel or Palestine – effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors.—
Joshua Shanes,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2023
Noun
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Under orders from General Erinmore (Colin Firth), the pair must traverse enemy lines to deliver a life-or-death message to Colonel Mackenzie (Benedict Cumberbatch), halting an attack that would endanger more than 1,000 men.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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The enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the country every day.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Well, that’s one way to silence a heckler.—
Julia Andersen,
CNN Money,
26 Aug. 2025
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Not even a heckler riding the Dodgers’ star all weekend at Petco Park could stop himself from smiling after Ohtani came over to high-five him after a homer on Sunday.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Aug. 2025
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There are no protagonists or antagonists, just people moving through life, Jarmusch catching moments of them the way that David Lynch once caught ideas like fish moving down a stream.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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Creating a character which doesn’t physically exist but is the main antagonist, an untouchable, uncatchable antagonist, was incredibly difficult.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Abuser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abuser. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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