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as in violated
to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent
was registered as a sex offender after assaulting the victim
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as in attacked
to take sudden, violent action against
was found guilty of assaulting an officer enemy forces assaulted the city
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Recent Examples of assaulted
The singer, who notably assaulted ex-girlfriend and Fenty beauty mogul Rihanna the night before the 2009 Grammy Awards, pleaded not guilty last year in the Diaw case.
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Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
One of the suspects also assaulted and sprayed paint on a person, and when officers tried to detain the suspects several blocks away at Turk and Taylor streets, other people surrounded and obstructed the officers, police said.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Squillace, along with Alex Hood, represented Hill for free in his lawsuit against the landowners who’d assaulted him on the Arkansas.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
1 July 2026
Thornden Park, where Sebold had been assaulted, was both a refuge and a menacing locale adjacent to the university.
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Joaquin Sapien,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
Jewish students have been harassed and assaulted on college campuses.
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Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2026
Rapp’s allegations that Spacey assaulted him in his New York apartment while Rapp was a teenager appeared in a 2017 Buzzfeed article and triggered the chain of allegations that led to Spacey’s career implosion.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
29 June 2026
The unrest began in mid-March but has intensified, leaving at least three dead as vigilantes armed with spears, clubs, and whips assaulted migrants and destroyed their homes.
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Lauren Morganbesser,
semafor.com,
28 June 2026
Louis rips his spine out, dislocates his jaw, and reads Claudia’s diary entries about how she was repeatedly assaulted by him.
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Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
One of the suspects also assaulted and sprayed paint on a person, and when officers tried to detain the suspects several blocks away at Turk and Taylor streets, other people surrounded and obstructed the officers, police said.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Squillace, along with Alex Hood, represented Hill for free in his lawsuit against the landowners who’d assaulted him on the Arkansas.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
1 July 2026
Thornden Park, where Sebold had been assaulted, was both a refuge and a menacing locale adjacent to the university.
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Joaquin Sapien,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
Jewish students have been harassed and assaulted on college campuses.
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Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
29 June 2026
Rapp’s allegations that Spacey assaulted him in his New York apartment while Rapp was a teenager appeared in a 2017 Buzzfeed article and triggered the chain of allegations that led to Spacey’s career implosion.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
29 June 2026
The unrest began in mid-March but has intensified, leaving at least three dead as vigilantes armed with spears, clubs, and whips assaulted migrants and destroyed their homes.
—
Lauren Morganbesser,
semafor.com,
28 June 2026
Louis rips his spine out, dislocates his jaw, and reads Claudia’s diary entries about how she was repeatedly assaulted by him.
—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for assaulted
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But the court ruled in February that Republican counter plans violated a Utah referendum prohibiting gerrymandering, solidifying the single district centered on the increasingly liberal Salt Lake City.
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The crash was not an accident, Adams said, because Pino violated several navigational rules — and piloted the boat without thinking about the well-being of his wife, daughter and the 11 girls on the boat.
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Police said former professional soccer player Badea and another man attacked Zeraati before fleeing in a getaway car driven by Stana and then flying out of the country from Heathrow Airport.
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The three men who attacked our CBS News Chicago crew near Adler Planetarium before pointing a gun at people in Brighton Park on Monday afternoon have been charged.
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The thought of being raped in prison is horrifying, after all.
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The warning is the second issued by UCSB police since May, when an 18-year-old freshman reported she was raped and strangled after meeting a man at a Sigma Pi fraternity party before returning to her dorm at Tropicana Gardens in Isla Vista.
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Kerr’s home in Florida was raided by the FBI on the same day.
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Emilee Hackney is an eighth-generation Appalachian who grew up in the coalfields of southwest Virginia in a family so impoverished her parents occasionally raided her and her brother’s piggy banks to pay the mortgage and buy groceries.
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When Daemon stormed into his dining room to seize Harrenhal under Rhaenyra’s name, Ser Simon was super polite about the whole thing.
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The Young Lords, a group of Puerto Rican activists, stormed and occupied the Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for 12 hours.
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