as in violating
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 raping
One unbearable sequence has Chiang coming back angry in the middle of the day and suddenly raping Chuan in their bedroom.
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Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Pena was previously accused of raping an American woman vacationing in Costa Rica, and the pair were allegedly associated with TdA, a foreign terrorist organization.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Before meeting Suzanne’s mother, Floyd had already served time in a Georgia prison for kidnapping and raping a 4-year-old girl, according to the FBI.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Echoes of Pelicot The case has prompted comparisons with France’s gang rape case involving Dominique Pelicot, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year for drugging, raping and inviting strangers to rape his then-wife, Gisele Pelicot.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
In another book, Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which is based on a true story, a group of Mennonite women debates whether to flee their isolated community—or stay and fight—after a group of men are caught drugging and raping them.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Chinweze is the second former correctional officer to be found guilty of raping women inside the Indiana Women's Prison in the past year.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 20 Aug. 2025
Morris was accused of raping and sodomizing two former players from 2012-17 and 2019-22.
—Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
Then, in November, 2019, days before the French release of the movie, the photographer Valentine Monnier publicly accused Polanski of beating and raping her, in Switzerland, in 1975.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Pena was previously accused of raping an American woman vacationing in Costa Rica, and the pair were allegedly associated with TdA, a foreign terrorist organization.
—Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Before meeting Suzanne’s mother, Floyd had already served time in a Georgia prison for kidnapping and raping a 4-year-old girl, according to the FBI.
—Christina Coulter, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
Echoes of Pelicot The case has prompted comparisons with France’s gang rape case involving Dominique Pelicot, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison last year for drugging, raping and inviting strangers to rape his then-wife, Gisele Pelicot.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
In another book, Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which is based on a true story, a group of Mennonite women debates whether to flee their isolated community—or stay and fight—after a group of men are caught drugging and raping them.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Chinweze is the second former correctional officer to be found guilty of raping women inside the Indiana Women's Prison in the past year.
—Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 20 Aug. 2025
Morris was accused of raping and sodomizing two former players from 2012-17 and 2019-22.
—Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
Then, in November, 2019, days before the French release of the movie, the photographer Valentine Monnier publicly accused Polanski of beating and raping her, in Switzerland, in 1975.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for raping
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Rice was unavailable for Friday’s game, serving the first game of his six-game league suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Bubba is named in the suit, accused of helping to develop the film using Hulk’s trademarks without permission, and of violating a settlement agreement.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Federal prosecutors have charged Omari Juan Beidleman with assaulting two members of the Mississippi National Guard during a patrol at the Capitol South Metro station.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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Insist that the federal government deploy those resources to get the violent offenders who are killing, assaulting and robbing law-abiding citizens on the city’s South and West sides.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Raping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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