as in violation
a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation
speeding is only a minor infraction, but vehicular homicide is a serious felony
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Recent Examples of infraction
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday called for a sweeping overhaul of how the military handles allegations of hazing and other types of abuse, insisting that the military had grown too soft and promising to expunge the records of tough leaders with past infractions.
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Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
However, many Americans have been critical of his immigration policy as individuals with misdemeanors, decades-old infractions or in some cases no criminal records at all have been swept up in the heightened enforcement.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Department requirements Each department that produces administrative citations will be required to report back to the city council annually on how many were issued, the types of infractions and how the money was spent.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
No country or person has yet been deemed responsible for the drone infractions, said Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark’s deputy prime minister and defense minister.
—Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
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Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
However, many Americans have been critical of his immigration policy as individuals with misdemeanors, decades-old infractions or in some cases no criminal records at all have been swept up in the heightened enforcement.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Department requirements Each department that produces administrative citations will be required to report back to the city council annually on how many were issued, the types of infractions and how the money was spent.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
No country or person has yet been deemed responsible for the drone infractions, said Troels Lund Poulsen, Denmark’s deputy prime minister and defense minister.
—Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infraction
Noun
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That will kick off a public process in which the City Council will carefully consider which violations warrant the use of of administrative citations and how the fines will be scaled.—
Wes Burdine,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Currently, nearly 60,000 people are being held by ICE, almost half have no criminal record, only immigration violations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Oct. 2025
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Three Twitch streamers are currently facing copyright-infringement lawsuits from a popular YouTuber.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The company recently rolled out Sora 2, its most advanced video generation model, which ran into immediate copyright infringement issues and drew criticism after it was used to create deepfakes of historical figures including Martin Luther King Jr.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Infraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infraction. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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