raped

past tense of rape
as in violated
to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent the defendant accused of raping the victim

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Recent Examples of raped According to a detective’s testimony at a preliminary hearing, Thomas raped a 15-year-old girl while forcing her to insult Blythe Street. Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Capo's is under fire after police said a woman was raped in a parking lot after leaving the bar on East Carson Street earlier this month. Jennifer Borrasso, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Marolt came into the bedroom and raped the victim, the news release said. Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 21 Aug. 2026 What follows is a beautifully bizarre story of agency and aliens, in which the fetus possesses Odie’s mind and helps her to get revenge on the man who raped her. S.m. Hallow, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026 In May, an 18-year-old freshman reported she was raped and strangled after meeting a man at a fraternity party before returning to her dorm at Tropicana Gardens in Isla Vista. Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026 Prosecutors said Williams raped and strangled Holland after offering her mother $2,500 for the child to perform oral sex on him. ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026 The day that she was taken prisoner, on a battlefield near the village of Petrivske, she was raped by a Russian soldier. Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Enraged, Bianchi and Buono picked up the 19-year-old Washington on October 17, 1977, and bound, raped, and strangled her in the back of Bianchi’s car. Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026
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  • The core of the Teamsters’ petition against the DMV is the claim that regulators violated the California Administrative Procedure Act by failing to complete an extensive study of the economic and practical impact of the policy change.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Meta also lost a separate social-media case brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, after a court found that the company violated the state's child-safety laws and ordered it to pay over $900 million in penalties.
    Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
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  • Scott and Dylan walked away from faculty members and the video production crew and and Scott allegedly assaulted her in a janitor’s closet.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is seeking the public’s assistance after a man broke into a woman’s residence and assaulted her early Tuesday morning in a small Kansas town.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026

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“Raped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raped. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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