BIAS CRIME Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

bias crime

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as in hate crime

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Recent Examples of bias crime Through last Sunday, bias crimes in the city were down 18% this year, with 18 incidents compared to 22 by this time last year. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025 Hay was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on assault and bias crime charges, officials said. — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024 Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime. — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024 Those numbers have continued to rise in the first month of 2024 as the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force has seen a 12% increase in bias crimes, according to police department statistics. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bias crime

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Noun

Assi is charged with a hate crime, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000 or both.

— Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
And the Homeless Continuum of Care Board would change its call for a representative from the LGBTQ+ community to one that provides services to hate crime victims.

— Zoey Thomas, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026

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Another factor is the effect of radiation on the chips powering the data centers which can cause errors.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
That's out of nearly 190,000 reports made about the drug over that period, most of which included minor gastrointestinal issues, dosing errors or injection site redness.

— Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026

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Xuan’s attorney, Mitchell Krems, previously noted his client had never been convicted of a crime.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
The frontrunner is Marine Le Pen, who has worked for years to make her far-right party, the National Rally, more electable while campaigning on immigration, crime, and denunciation of an out-of-touch political class.

— Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of crime

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Denny Hamlin served a safety violation after a tire bounced out of his team’s pit box, sending him to the back of the field temporarily.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026
Myriad violations, from food that should’ve been trashed weeks earlier to filthy equipment, befouled the state inspection of a West Miami-Dade supermarket this week.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026

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Three weeks into the protest, President Emmanuel Macron's government is struggling to work out how to balance demands for more education spending with the need to rein in public debt.

— Makini Brice, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
If your debt is unmanageable, check with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling to see if a debt management plan might help.

— Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2026

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