as in criminals
a person who has committed a crime
juvenile offenders have their criminal records sealed when they turn 18
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Recent Examples of offenders
Changes in the law regarding youth offenders and subsequent court rulings led a San Diego Superior Court judge on Tuesday to find that Williams fit the criteria to be resentenced.
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Tierney blasted the parole system's handling of repeat violent offenders.
—Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The worst offenders, though, are the goody bags.
—Mandy Len Catron, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Murrill’s office also invoked the habitual offenders statute, where criminal defendants can be tagged as habitual offenders after a fourth felony charge, according to Louisiana law, and face longer prison sentences.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
This doesn’t mean that day-care fraud has not taken place in Minneapolis—there’s a years-long history of such malfeasance, and both state and federal law enforcement have convicted dozens of offenders, as Kash Patel subsequently pointed out.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
Under those changes, certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders could receive a break in sentencing.
—Kevin Krause, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
The laws expand on prior legislation by increasing penalties for offenders and allowing vehicles to be towed for reckless driving.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Police Chief Johnny Jennings decried repeat criminal offenders and said Mecklenburg County again needs a detention facility for teenagers during a lunch in south Charlotte on Tuesday.
—Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2025
Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Tierney blasted the parole system's handling of repeat violent offenders.
—Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
The worst offenders, though, are the goody bags.
—Mandy Len Catron, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
Murrill’s office also invoked the habitual offenders statute, where criminal defendants can be tagged as habitual offenders after a fourth felony charge, according to Louisiana law, and face longer prison sentences.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
This doesn’t mean that day-care fraud has not taken place in Minneapolis—there’s a years-long history of such malfeasance, and both state and federal law enforcement have convicted dozens of offenders, as Kash Patel subsequently pointed out.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2026
Under those changes, certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders could receive a break in sentencing.
—Kevin Krause, Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
The laws expand on prior legislation by increasing penalties for offenders and allowing vehicles to be towed for reckless driving.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Police Chief Johnny Jennings decried repeat criminal offenders and said Mecklenburg County again needs a detention facility for teenagers during a lunch in south Charlotte on Tuesday.
—Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offenders
Noun
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The trio has a surprisingly good theory about the implosion of the makeshift Astral Pulse; seems like Shroud never found the original, and someone has been outfitting low-level criminals with bootlegs that are going awry like Robert’s.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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With spoofing tools, criminals can mimic real bank phone numbers and even use AI to reproduce familiar voices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The real culprits in this story, however, are the broader societal and industry transformations that are putting increasing demands on electricity needs.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Since nothing else has fixed it, how about briefly benching the most frequent culprits?—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Offenders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offenders. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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