1
as in to break
to fail to keep
you've violated the company's rule against smoking within 30 feet of the building
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as in to desecrate
to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect
the invaders violated the temple by using it to stable their horses
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Recent Examples of violate
Most Popular Most Popular Famed research sub Alvin arrives in San Diego after crew witnesses volcanic eruption in Pacific
Paradise Point resort violated Coastal Act for years.
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
Again the court ruled the law violated Congress’ commerce power and again Souter countered the Constitution gave lawmakers broad power to decide how to define commerce.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Would a coach violate HIPAA by disclosing that student’s physical condition?
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
What To Know Saturday was the last day of a unilateral three-day ceasefire declared by Russia that Ukraine says Moscow itself had repeatedly violated.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2025
Again the court ruled the law violated Congress’ commerce power and again Souter countered the Constitution gave lawmakers broad power to decide how to define commerce.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Would a coach violate HIPAA by disclosing that student’s physical condition?
—Holly Yan, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
What To Know Saturday was the last day of a unilateral three-day ceasefire declared by Russia that Ukraine says Moscow itself had repeatedly violated.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for violate
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Most of them lasted for about one microsecond before breaking apart.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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These things could be coincidental, or could, as the main character suggests, be the work of fairies upset that their pools were desecrated in this way.—
Deborah Treisman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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The audit also noted a Jewish cemetery in Waterbury that was vandalized with more than 12 gravestones desecrated.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
22 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, he was accused of drugging and raping a woman on a yacht in 2020 in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Court.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
16 May 2025
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Fred and Rose West were accused of raping, torturing, and killing at least 12 people over more than 20 years.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Six of nine planetary boundaries — the limits deemed safe for humans to enjoy stable and prosperous lives on Earth — have been breached.—
Nina Seega,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Earlier this year, authorities shut down the farm in Cheongju, South Korea — where the owner had been breeding dogs and serving their meat in his restaurant for 40 years — for breaching the Animal Protection Act, according to the charity (formerly Humane Society International).—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
12 May 2025
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An embarrassing, humbling, shocking Game 5 defeat showed that. All the same problems, the ones that destroyed Leaf team after Leaf team and ultimately ended Sheldon Keefe’s time as head coach, are emerging again at the worst possible time.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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In order to retrieve the original source code of the Entity and destroy it, Hunt has to risk life and limb and dive into icy arctic waters to a sunken Soviet submarine teetering 500 feet underwater.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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Mace cites allegations that McIver assaulted federal law enforcement officers and unlawfully interfered with operations at a federal immigration detention facility in Newark.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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Super Bowl winner Ray Rice and Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt both assaulted women in the past, as well.—
Armon Sadler,
VIBE.com,
21 May 2025
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In the first case, DC Gambling Recovery LLC (the plaintiff) alleges that the law legalizing sports betting in the district contravenes federal law.—
David B. McGarry,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2025
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The letter noted that the Administration’s demands contravene the First Amendment and federal law and rejected the premise of the ultimatum.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2025
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The sacred plant, long defiled, heralded, as in the time of the Inca and all the ancient civilizations of the Andes, as a gift of the gods.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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In the Parsi tradition, the bones are left there to gradually disintegrate over time, completing the return to nature without defiling the earth.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Violate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violate. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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