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Recent Examples of ill-treatment
Officers understood that a move against Maduro without clear guarantees of immunity meant risking imprisonment, torture, confiscation of assets, and the ill-treatment of their families.
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Bobby Ghosh, Time, 3 Jan. 2026
On the stand, Nash testified to Combs’ ill-treatment Fine during the years he was employed.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Bobby Ghosh, Time, 3 Jan. 2026
On the stand, Nash testified to Combs’ ill-treatment Fine during the years he was employed.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-treatment
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In New York, a Peruvian immigrant filed a lawsuit over mistreatment at 26 Federal Plaza, where ICE has held about half of the two thousand people it’s detained in the city since January.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Koko Miller, 57, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, maintaining a dangerous dog and two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment in connection with the December 2023 attack that left 6-year-old Loyalty Scott dead, prosecutors said, per Oregon Live, KPTV and KGW-TV.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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No one involved in this study claims that cash assistance is the only or even the best solution for child maltreatment.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the antebellum years and during Reconstruction, conjure women told mermaid stories that empowered women and girls, where the mermaids’ struggles for freedom mirrored their own experiences of domestic abuse or reproductive maltreatment during slavery.—
Time,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Altadena awaits the official cause of the Eaton fire, but survivors and plaintiff attorneys in hundreds of lawsuits point to the public utility Southern California Edison as being at fault for its equipment and mismanagement sparking the blaze in the foothills above the town.—
David Wilson,
Daily News,
7 Jan. 2026
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More than a century of overfishing, industrialization, and hatchery mismanagement has brought several populations of salmon and their close relative the steelhead to critically low levels in the Pacific Northwest.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Ill-treatment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-treatment. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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