as in immunity
freedom from punishment, harm, or loss
she mistakenly believed that she could insult people with impunity
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Recent Examples of impunity
Secaucus is not going to be the place where these criminals operate with impunity!
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Brazil’s violent past has yet to be fully reckoned with, but this trial marks a historic departure from impunity, said Lucas Figueiredo, the author of several books about the country’s most recent dictatorship.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
And a lot of it has to do with the failure of journalism and the lack of adversarial journalism that’s asking hard questions — one of the things of the themes of this film is kind of cycles of impunity.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Shootings and impunity By the 2000s, Israel’s attacks on journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip grew deadlier.
—Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
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Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Brazil’s violent past has yet to be fully reckoned with, but this trial marks a historic departure from impunity, said Lucas Figueiredo, the author of several books about the country’s most recent dictatorship.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
And a lot of it has to do with the failure of journalism and the lack of adversarial journalism that’s asking hard questions — one of the things of the themes of this film is kind of cycles of impunity.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Shootings and impunity By the 2000s, Israel’s attacks on journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip grew deadlier.
—Maha Nassar, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impunity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impunity
Noun
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Most of us now view COVID-19 as more of a nuisance than a danger, thanks to vaccines and past exposure to the virus—all of which have built up our immunity.—
Alice Park,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Hina and Uli were then first and second, respectively, in the immunity challenge, sending Kele to the first tribal council.—
Christopher Kuhagen,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Still, the decisiveness with which Nix delivered the ball, trusting both the protection in front of him and what his eyes were seeing with the defense, was encouraging.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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By providing a compact, sustainable, and highly effective solution, the researchers are contributing to environmental protection and securing clean water resources for the future.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The exemption applies to permanent residences and not to businesses.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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There are some exemptions to this rule, namely for emergency room care, which the government does then repay, but this applies to all patients without other medical insurance, regardless of immigration status.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Impunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impunity. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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