as in mistreatment
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Noun
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Reports have cited instances of excessive force, mistreatment of migrants in detention facilities, and allegations of civil rights violations.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025 -
In the months leading up to the 1971 uprising, overcrowding, dire conditions and mistreatment of prisoners had simmered into anger.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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On the stand, Nash testified to Combs’ ill-treatment Fine during the years he was employed.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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Of this group, more than half – 56% – had talked about their maltreatment on social media.—
Laura Schwab Reese,
The Conversation,
2 Sep. 2025
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Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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Even though Rinderknecht was charged with the crime, fire experts told the Washington Examiner that mismanagement by firefighting crews and questionable tactics putting out the smaller Lachman Fire contributed to the Palisades Fire.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Ill-usage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-usage. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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