as in mistreatment
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Noun
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The few details families receive come through alarming phone calls from detainees worried about their health and mistreatment at the facility.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026 -
The novel painfully exposes the ruthless mistreatment and exploitation of both racehorses and humans in this era and tracks the ripples of that trauma through time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
3 Jan. 2026
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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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According to Seary, there is also currently no funded pathway specifically designed for former athletes recovering from coach maltreatment nor duty of care beyond retirement, meaning survivors are left to self-fund their own recovery, from legal fees to therapy and healthcare.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Severe child maltreatment is not reducible to a single cause, and serious child welfare policy cannot be reduced to a single response.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Guerrero Flores returned to the prison in Aragua on murder and other convictions in 2013, when Venezuela’s crisis began and corruption, mismanagement and a drop in crude prices wrecked the oil-dependent economy.—
Will Weissert,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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Both of those groups have received scrutiny in the past from Republicans over financial mismanagement allegations.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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“Ill-usage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-usage. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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