Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronging
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Rich people victimizing poor people and the world.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025 -
The email is the most recent evidence to emerge that McCorkle and other Henry County leaders knew about allegations against Bertram for years, but failed to stop him from victimizing more men.—
Tony Cook,
IndyStar,
19 Aug. 2025
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The goal of the procedure is to remove all of the skin cancer without harming the healthy skin around it.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Jernigan, Houry, and Daskalakis say that Kennedy’s vaccine moves are already harming Americans.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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When a girl in Michigan and her new boyfriend start getting harassing texts from a mysterious stranger, what starts as a little scary becomes deeply weird when the true culprit is discovered.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 Aug. 2025
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According to Dresden police, two men began harassing female passengers on the tram.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
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As her condition worsens, her fiancé’s brooding cousin becomes an unwilling participant in the evil forces tormenting her.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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This demon, for want of a better word, seems to relish tormenting people.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Last week, a 23-year-old opened fire outside a church at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 19 other people before dying by suicide.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Parollee Dawain Hopson lived a free life for about five weeks before landing back behind bars, this time for allegedly stabbing two people to death at a Detroit pool party over the summer and injuring two others with the same knife.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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For 25 years, Chavism has co-opted Venezuela's infrastructure for its own enrichment, persecuting journalists and opposition, wrecking the economy, and leaving its citizens in poverty.—
Kristina Foltz,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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In July, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two of the Taliban’s top leaders, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, which the group dismissed.—
Astha Rajvanshi,
NBC news,
5 Aug. 2025
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Jamie Simpson of Covington was sentenced in March to 60 years in prison for holding his wife captive and torturing her for hours before barricading himself inside her home in a lengthy standoff with police.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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Emmett was just 14 when he was kidnapped from his great-uncle’s house by two White men who later admitted to beating and torturing the teen before shooting him in the head and throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a 75-pound cotton gin fan.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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In exchange, clubs like this year’s Loons or last year’s RSL wouldn’t have to face the prospect of sandbagging their season for a club-record payday nearly as often.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Wronging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronging. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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