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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2
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
However, in abandoning Earth science, NASA would be violating the law that created the agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The restaurant violated 12 standards, including missing date marks on food and dumpster doors left open.
—Evan Moore
august 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2025
Hall argued that sale would violate a business agreement the two musicians reached on Oct. 15, 2021.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
Policy experts viewed the Trump administration’s interim final rule on H-1B visas, which a court blocked for violating the Administrative Procedure Act, as designed to prevent, or at least discourage, employers from using the H-1B category by narrowing eligibility and piling on requirements.
—Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The restaurant violated 12 standards, including missing date marks on food and dumpster doors left open.
—Evan Moore
august 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2025
Hall argued that sale would violate a business agreement the two musicians reached on Oct. 15, 2021.
—Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 15 Aug. 2025
Policy experts viewed the Trump administration’s interim final rule on H-1B visas, which a court blocked for violating the Administrative Procedure Act, as designed to prevent, or at least discourage, employers from using the H-1B category by narrowing eligibility and piling on requirements.
—Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for violate
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Earlier this month, more than 50 women broke into spontaneous applause and cheers when Frierson unexpectedly walked into their meeting.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Jillian Michaels has loudly broken her silence on a contentious new docuseries on Netflix, which makes claims about the former The Biggest Loser cohost in a variety of its more unsavory scandals.—
Ryan Coleman Published,
EW.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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When Melanson failed to comply with Lino’s instructions, Lino allegedly beat the older man with a baseball bat and then desecrated his corpse.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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During the French Revolution, Louis XIV’s tomb was desecrated and his remains scattered.—
Helen I. Bennett,
Hartford Courant,
23 July 2025
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The ex-con accused of choking and trying to rape a 21-year-old woman on a Hell’s Kitchen sidewalk was a sadistic predator who was caught on camera following several women for more than an hour before the horrific attack, prosecutors said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Then, in November, 2019, days before the French release of the movie, the photographer Valentine Monnier publicly accused Polanski of beating and raping her, in Switzerland, in 1975.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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By rule, the ball does not have to touch a fan who breaches the field of play.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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Emergency managers ordered a mandatory evacuation of Hatteras Island, citing forecasts of high winds and waves that could breach portions of North Carolina Highway 12, the only road linking the island to the mainland.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 2025
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Protective sand dunes could be inundated and destroyed, which could lead to severe flooding inland, National Park Service officials at Cape Hatteras National Seashore warned Monday.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2025
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Large dangerous waves will likely inundate and destroy protective dune structures.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Aug. 2025
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The reigning 100-meter world champion sprinter also issued an apology to her boyfriend after allegedly assaulting him in a Seattle airport.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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The passenger did not physically assault anyone on the aircraft, and no injuries were reported, according to police.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 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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This action directly contravenes the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prohibits using federal military forces for domestic law enforcement.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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The seafood area’s ice machine was similarly defiled.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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This is in contrast to most traditional Hindu narratives, in which the husband rejects a wife who has been ‘defiled’ by another man’s attentions.—
Radha Vatsal
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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“Violate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/violate. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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