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Recent Examples of impunity Despite these pronouncements, Israel’s aerial armada appeared to strike Iran with near impunity. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 Israel has shown – flaunted even – the Mossad’s ability to operate with near impunity in Iran in the past. Leila Gharagrozlou, CNN Money, 13 June 2025 Even before the airstrikes, Israel had demonstrated its ability to operate with near impunity in Iran over the past year, targeting senior figures for assassination and bombing important air defense systems without losing aircraft. Dan De Luce, NBC news, 13 June 2025 This is not the way a democracy should work — in which those working to forward the president’s agenda can act with impunity, but everyone else needs follow the rules. Edwin C. Yohnka, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for impunity
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Noun
  • By a child’s second or third RSV season, their bodies are often enough to fight off the infection and develop immunity that will protect them going forward.
    Staff Author, Verywell Health, 27 June 2025
  • Appeals court denies Charlotte officer use of force immunity Lor’s lawyer in a pointed May appellate hearing again argued the officer should have immunity.
    Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • That’s because Republicans are still hustling to win approval for provisions that their nonpartisan rules referee deemed ineligible for protection from a Democratic filibuster.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 26 June 2025
  • By the spring of 1975, Peltier had set up camp on the reservation at Oglala, offering protection to elders.
    Nick Estes, New Yorker, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • However, Alaska and Hawaii would receive temporary exemptions from the cost-sharing requirement.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 28 June 2025
  • Again Without it, his path back would require a top-10 finish in a major, a high enough position in the OWGR, or a special exemption from the USGA.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025

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“Impunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impunity. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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