Thesaurus results for RAPING

raping

verb

present participle of rape

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 James Holder, the cofounder of British clothing company Superdry, has been sentenced to eight years in jail for raping a woman. —

Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 7 May 2026 Tollinche has a prior unsealed arrest for allegedly raping a minor in 2025, according to records. —

Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 May 2026 Prosecutors said Holder, who denied the charge, had been out drinking at a bar with several people — including the woman he was later convicted of raping — in May 2022, according to the Times. —

Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026 Richard Kielczweski, a Suffolk Sheriff’s deputy and jail guard accused of raping and trafficking a 15-year-old boy, now faces charges of witness intimidation in his case. —

Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026 In December, a German man was found guilty of drugging and raping his unconscious wife over several years and filming the assaults. —

Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026 Woo said Lawhead had been sentenced to spend 19 years in prison for brutally attacking a 71-year-old grandmother and raping her 11-year-old granddaughter in 1980 in Sacramento County. —

Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026 Lawhead had been released from prison in early 1991 after serving 11 years out of a 19-year prison sentence for breaking into a home in 1980, brutally beating a grandmother, and raping her 11-year-old granddaughter. —

Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026 Tong referenced an expose on CNN that revealed a network of websites and group chats on platforms like Telegram in which men uploaded videos of drugging and raping their wives and advised others how to do the same. —

Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2026

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The Appeal-Democrat newspaper reported in a police blotter article last summer that Daniels was arrested on July 11 on suspicion of drug possession and violating parole, and he was booked then at the Yuba County Jail.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 6 May 2026
He was twice arrested for protesting on OpenAI’s San Francisco campus, and arrested again in 2025 for violating a judge’s order not to return.

— Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026