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Recent Examples of transgressorHelen is depicted variously in art and literature as both a transgressor and as a victim of abduction.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 Apr. 2026
Deputies responded to the area and identified an undisclosed number of juveniles as the offenders, officials said.
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Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
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.
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.
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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Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Nov. 2025
Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.
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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Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
29 June 2026
The performance earned her the award for best villain at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
He was convicted of first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon with priors in 2024 and was sentenced to life in prison.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
2 July 2026
His prior convictions include second-degree kidnapping and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to court filings.
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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Joel B. Rudin,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2026
The overpowering moral authority of wronged women, #MeToo’s skeptics alleged, would allow cynical wrongdoers to weaponize claims of victimhood for their own gain.