as in torturers
a person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another
the firm takes the issue of sexual harassment very seriously, and harassers are harshly disciplined
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Recent Examples of harassers
Still, the star did not name her harassers.
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Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
22 May 2026
Most harassers do not harass others in front of someone else.
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Briana Mascaro,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
Of course, that conservative approach is often wrecked by QB harassers such as Lawrence and Williams, part of a defense that ranked seventh in the NFL in sacks.
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Eric Branch,
San Francisco Chronicle,
17 Jan. 2026
Moreover, when harassers disproportionately target women, people of color and LGBTQ officials, entire communities are systematically excluded from participation in self-governance.
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Ernestine Nettles,
Mercury News,
22 Nov. 2025
Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
22 May 2026
Most harassers do not harass others in front of someone else.
—
Briana Mascaro,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
Of course, that conservative approach is often wrecked by QB harassers such as Lawrence and Williams, part of a defense that ranked seventh in the NFL in sacks.
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Eric Branch,
San Francisco Chronicle,
17 Jan. 2026
Moreover, when harassers disproportionately target women, people of color and LGBTQ officials, entire communities are systematically excluded from participation in self-governance.
—
Ernestine Nettles,
Mercury News,
22 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harassers
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Red is immediately abducted, cut open in an ambulance, and injected with pain-magnifying drugs by his torturers, while Liz accidentally murders the mysterious man surveilling her next door.
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Aaron escapes his torturers, first by rooting himself in the town’s only movie theater open to Black people, and then by lying about his age and enlisting in the Navy at 16.
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They are all stuffed into selections from the adults-only section of a Spirit Halloween store and made to perform amateur strip teases for their fellow Islanders — all strapped to heart-rate monitors — to see who can raise whose heart rate the most.
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Rhys teases of the finale’s contents.
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The shooting may have been worse if not for the actions of a Muslim immigrant from Syria who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers.
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Three goals in the group stages confirmed Ismael Saibari as one of Africa’s most lethal attackers at the World Cup.
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That their tormentors were not untouchable.
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If the tormenters keep it up, grackles do eventually move.
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That’s a little simplistic — look at San Francisco’s Scott Wiener being chased from a trans rights event by hecklers accusing him of being pro-genocide.
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McIlroy was even seen stepping back from the ball to quip back at one of the hecklers, while others, including his friend Shane Lowry, were also quick to respond.
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Shakespeare humanizes the Elizabethan stage stereotype of the villainous Jew by giving Shylock ample reason for wanting to get back at his Christian persecutors.
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.
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“Harassers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harassers. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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