as in illegality
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Recent Examples of unlawfulness
Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlawfulness
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The potential illegality of the strikes should alarm Americans.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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Village League representatives were assassinated by activists, and most of the Palestinian population continued to regard the PLO (and the various political factions that constituted it) as their sole legitimate representative, despite its illegality.—
Literary Hub
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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Rank, whose company recently remade Ingmar Bergsson classic film Faithless as a European TV series, praised Adolescence for matching up the genre beats of a crime story with the higher concepts around criminality, toxic masculinity and family, and the one-shot filming techniques.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Oct. 2025
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The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.—
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib,
The Atlantic,
23 Sep. 2025
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McCrary's former partner cited concerns about the child's safety in his care, and the court ordered him to have monitored visitation and to attend classes on parenting and for drug and alcohol abuse and batterer intervention, PEOPLE reported.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Oct. 2025
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McCrary was ordered to attend alcohol and drug abuse and batterers’ intervention classes within 12 months and was granted visits with their daughter.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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And the reason why Illinois is a different case from Chicago is because Chicago has been given over to lawlessness and gangs for too long, George.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Oct. 2025
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Continue reading … BADGE REVOLT – Police officers reveal DC 'lawlessness' as feds probe alleged crime data manipulation.—
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FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
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Madagascar has seen weeks of protests, initially spurred by shortages of water and power but now encompassing deeper unhappiness over corruption, inflation, and high unemployment.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Unlawfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlawfulness. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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