1
as in broke
to fail to keep
you've violated the company's rule against smoking within 30 feet of the building
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2
as in destroyed
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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as in raped
to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent
criminal statutes delineating acts that constitute violating another person
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Recent Examples of violated
The underlying lawsuit, filed in December, alleges that federal officers violated the First and Fourth Amendment rights of six protesters.
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Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2026
The agency conceded that confidential data had been improperly accessed and shared and emphasized that the disclosures violated strict federal laws governing tax return confidentiality.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The Academy argued that the funding cuts violated the First Amendment and were in retaliation for speaking out against actions by the administration.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
But the apparel giant alleges that Pattie Gonia’s recent attempts to sell and trademark her name violated that agreement.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s still some uncertainty regarding this rule; the players’ union has objected to it, saying it was not negotiated and violated their collective-bargaining agreement.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
The district's lawyer, Lisa Smith, later told board members reciting Bible verses during board meetings violated the Establishment Clause.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The state’s highest court ruled that the law, called SB 22, violated the Missouri Constitution’s requirement that lawmakers cannot amend bills to change the legislation’s original purpose.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2026
That includes working with community groups to ensure residents understand their rights, investigating incidents where those rights may have been violated and generally working to keep everyone safe — in their neighborhoods and at protest events.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2026
Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2026
The agency conceded that confidential data had been improperly accessed and shared and emphasized that the disclosures violated strict federal laws governing tax return confidentiality.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The Academy argued that the funding cuts violated the First Amendment and were in retaliation for speaking out against actions by the administration.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
But the apparel giant alleges that Pattie Gonia’s recent attempts to sell and trademark her name violated that agreement.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
There’s still some uncertainty regarding this rule; the players’ union has objected to it, saying it was not negotiated and violated their collective-bargaining agreement.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
The district's lawyer, Lisa Smith, later told board members reciting Bible verses during board meetings violated the Establishment Clause.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The state’s highest court ruled that the law, called SB 22, violated the Missouri Constitution’s requirement that lawmakers cannot amend bills to change the legislation’s original purpose.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Jan. 2026
That includes working with community groups to ensure residents understand their rights, investigating incidents where those rights may have been violated and generally working to keep everyone safe — in their neighborhoods and at protest events.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violated
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Once news broke that Nix would miss the game and Stidham would start, the Patriots were listed as favorites in the game.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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This matchup did get easier last weekend, however, when Broncos starting quarterback Bo Nix broke his ankle.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Well, Federer just destroyed him — 6-1, 6-4 in about 50 minutes — and that left a lot of time to fill.—
Patrick McEnroe,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The fire killed two people, destroyed 1,084 homes and businesses and did more than $2 billion in property damage.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Brooke Nevils, who said she was raped by Lauer, has a new piece in The Cut and a book on the way.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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Police are searching for a suspect after a Florida Memorial University student was raped on campus early Sunday morning, according to Miami Gardens police.—
Anna McAllister,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Consumer health data stored in ChatGPT could potentially be subpoenaed or breached, creating liability exposure that risk-averse healthcare administrators will not accept.—
Sahar Hashmi,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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When one attempts to selectively remove weft threads, tugging and pulling them away from neighboring strands as well as the warp around which they are woven, the integrity of the fabric is breached.—
Scott Santarosa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Officials determined that a total of 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or desecrated from November 2025 until the day Gerlach was caught.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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In 1993, White Supremacists in Billings desecrated a Jewish cemetery, sent bomb threats to a synagogue and threw a brick at a menorah in the window of a five-year-old Jewish boy.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
16 Dec. 2025
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By the time the melee had subsided, responding police officers determined that three men had been shot and a woman had been assaulted.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Earlier in the festival, Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost was the victim of a racially motivated assaulted at a CAA party.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The Kremlin denied Russia's tests of the Burevestnik missile at a nuclear facility contravened nuclear weapons testing regulations.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Villa contravened these restrictions last season, time and time again.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The work of love, and the question of what happens when love is absent or defiled, became a central preoccupation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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Their beautiful sanctuary has been defiled, and Emily is fired.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Violated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violated. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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