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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
Russian athletes are routinely asked to answer for the actions of their government, yet athletes from other countries are rarely subjected to the same scrutiny or treated as though they are personally aligned with war criminals or dictators.
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Jon Root OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2026
Rafay Baloch, a cybersecurity expert and author of the book Web Hacking Arsenal, says that criminals specifically look for travelers who appear disoriented.
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.
The iconic villain, portrayed by Robert Mitchum in 1962’s Cape Fear and by Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 version, is back on screen in the new Apple TV adaptation.
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Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2026
Dead-end conflict is where the hero and the villain, the good guys and the bad guys, essentially never have any opportunity for movement or reconciliation at the end of the story.
Greylord was a watershed moment in its use of eavesdropping devices and a mole to obtain evidence instead of relying on wrongdoers to become government informants.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
And when thunderclaps rattled their chests, the Chinese felt a deity punishing wrongdoers.