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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transgressor
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Deputies responded to the area and identified an undisclosed number of juveniles as the offenders, officials said.
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Washington faces decisions about whether to sanction firms that engage in distillation, restrict the chips and cloud infrastructure that support it, and create legal safe harbors for American AI labs to share threat intelligence about offenders.
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What begins as a chance to escape the routine of his everyday life quickly spirals into a dangerous gathering of powerful criminals, old enemies, and unresolved loyalties.
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That creates the perfect opening for criminals.
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The Common Law principles that shape sentencing are about accountability for the lawbreaker’s actions.
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Rollins is running for a job in justice, ostensibly to uphold the law and hold lawbreakers accountable.
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That rogues’ gallery includes such reprobates as Maura Healey, the fake Indian, Ed Markey, Seth Moulton, crackpot leftist Juliette Kayyem… Percentage of contribution Summers made to Democrats: 100 percent.
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Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.
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Together, the band brings to life a mythic world of ancient heroes and villains, attracting an excited audience of headbangers and fantasy fanatics, many of whom show up in costume.
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The performance earned her the award for best villain at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
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Earlier this month, Doyle’s father, Melvin Doyle, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon.
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One charge, possession of a weapon by a felon, followed a conviction in Mecklenburg in August 2020 on a 2018 charge of conspiracy to commit robbery, according to records.
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That relationship was based on sinners confessing their sins to this vicar.
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More joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety-nine righteous people who’ve got nothing to repent.
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New York’s Bivens Act remedies this by extending the protections of Section 1983 to all individual government wrongdoers — including federal ones.
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The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo’s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain.
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“Transgressor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transgressor. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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