1
as in breaking
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 destroying
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 raping
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 violating
Cuba has said the planes were violating Cuban airspace.
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Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Driscoll pleaded guilty later in 2010 to violating the order of protection, which was later terminated.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Cuba accused Brothers to the Rescue members of repeatedly violating Cuban airspace to drop leaflets, and claimed the group had planned to sabotage Cuban infrastructure.
—Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 20 May 2026
The Request for Investigation, shared exclusively with Fortune ahead of its public filing on Wednesday, alleges that Roblox is violating Section 5 of the FTC Act through unfair and deceptive practices.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Getty Images Rashee Rice is in jail after violating his probation, and the turbulent Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver picked the worst possible time for his latest lapse of judgment.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
After one of those flights over Havana, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that any aircraft violating Cuban airspace risked being shot down.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
He was suspended for the first six weeks of the 2025 season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Officers then seized the money due to violating federal currency reporting laws.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 20 May 2026
Driscoll pleaded guilty later in 2010 to violating the order of protection, which was later terminated.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
Cuba accused Brothers to the Rescue members of repeatedly violating Cuban airspace to drop leaflets, and claimed the group had planned to sabotage Cuban infrastructure.
—Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 20 May 2026
The Request for Investigation, shared exclusively with Fortune ahead of its public filing on Wednesday, alleges that Roblox is violating Section 5 of the FTC Act through unfair and deceptive practices.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Getty Images Rashee Rice is in jail after violating his probation, and the turbulent Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver picked the worst possible time for his latest lapse of judgment.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
After one of those flights over Havana, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that any aircraft violating Cuban airspace risked being shot down.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
He was suspended for the first six weeks of the 2025 season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Officers then seized the money due to violating federal currency reporting laws.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for violating
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Nvidia’s GPUs, first developed in 1999 for rendering graphics on computers and gaming consoles, function by breaking complex computing problems into smaller tasks and resolving them simultaneously.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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The two string-breaking simulations are among the first to model particle interactions in two spatial dimensions, González-Cuadra says.—
Zeeya Merali,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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Giant sheets of plastic hang from the ceiling to separate different areas for destroying things and painting.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2026
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Pests and wood-destroying organisms Charlotte’s warm, humid climate makes termites a year-round threat, not just seasonal.—
Ryan Brennan
May 15,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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On April 12, former congressman Swalwell, 45, suspended his campaign for governor of California after multiple women accused him of inappropriate behavior ranging from sending lewd, unwanted messages to drugging, raping and choking them.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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The four-parter includes in-depth interviews with people close to Combs, from childhood friends to business associates, as well as Joi Dickerson-Neal, who accused the rapper-actor-mogul of drugging and raping her in the 1990s.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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On the same statute-of-limitations grounds, the jury also rejected Musk’s claim that Microsoft aided and abetted Altman and Brockman in allegedly breaching their duty to OpenAI.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
18 May 2026
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Musk filed his lawsuit in 2024, accusing Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman of unjustly enriching themselves, and OpenAI of breaching its duty as a nonprofit by starting a for-profit wing and taking billions in investment from Microsoft (also named as a defendant).—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
18 May 2026
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The case intensifies international scrutiny of Israel’s treatment of religious minorities, following recent incidents of soldiers desecrating Christian religious symbols in Lebanon.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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This week’s discovery of the antisemitic graffiti follows the arrest of two teenage vandals for desecrating a Brooklyn playground in a Jewish neighborhood with more than 50 swastikas in January.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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They are accused of using several ruses to force their way into people’s homes, assaulting unsuspecting residents and holding them hostage for their own money, and demanding access to their crypto accounts.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
14 May 2026
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Cole Allen, who was shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, pleaded not guilty to attempting to assassinate the president of the United States, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, transporting a firearm across state lines and assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon.—
Peter D'Abrosca , Jake Gibson,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.—
Elaine L. Wang
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Three people were stabbed on a Rhode Island beach Tuesday as hundreds of teenagers packed the area, forcing beachgoers to flee.—
Louis Casiano , Brooke Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
20 May 2026
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Rather than compounding the advantages of incumbents, Grantham argued on Excess Returns, AI is forcing them into brutal, costly competition with one another.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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“Violating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violating. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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