noncriminal

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Recent Examples of noncriminal Particularly today, when ICE has exponentially increased its detention of noncriminal individuals for immigration violations, leading to young college students getting picked up by immigration officials and detained with hardened criminals. The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 23 July 2025 If the Trump administration wants to go after nonviolent and even noncriminal day laborers and nannies, why should New York be assisting in the effort? New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025 Glendale City Council members defended the detentions this week, saying that the city had an 18-year-old contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to temporarily house noncriminal detainees. Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025 But noncriminal targets number in the hundreds of thousands. Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noncriminal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncriminal
Adjective
  • Real estate experts say claiming primary residences on different mortgages at the same time is often legal and rarely prosecuted.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The brutality of the Ukrainian frontline The challenges facing foreign volunteer fighters on the battlefield extend well beyond their legal label.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is a lawful order to LEAVE NOW.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Schrank also told reporters at the site on Friday that some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents had been detained in the raid and were later released.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The acquisition would provide Apple with an immediate AI search capability that could transform both Siri and Safari, giving the company a legitimate competitor to Google’s search dominance.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • After tragedies or natural disasters, fake nonprofits or misleading crowdfunding campaigns pop up online, siphoning donations away from legitimate causes.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Understanding what the agent can do, to establish the parameters for allowable transactions.
    David G.W. Birch, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Huddlestun said the business that goes there could be anything allowable on M-1.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • While the Board of Immigration Appeals has final say in the case and Bondi can not directly rule, the attorney general has authority to intervene in any of the board’s cases and overruled a previously permissible legal standard from the Biden administration's policy.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While burn permits are not currently required, safety regulations still apply, such as permissible items and varying city or county ordinances.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The link, which also actually goes to PayPal, adds the scammer as a second authorized user of your PayPal account.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The system gives pilots two aural alerts when an unauthorized aircraft enters the runway on a collision course with the authorized aircraft.
    Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Security, errors, and trust dominate the risk analysis Despite the hype and muddled terminology, the core idea of AI agents—systems designed to autonomously take action to carry out specific tasks—is still generating a lot of justifiable excitement.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As an epic celebration of imperialism, colonialization, and warfare, the Aeneid is often viewed with justifiable wariness by twenty-first-century readers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Noncriminal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncriminal. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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