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Recent Examples of intimidation
The 16-count indictment against Republican Liz Murrill, handed up Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury, charges Louisiana’s first female attorney general with intimidation and malfeasance.
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Safiyah Riddle,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2026
The 16-count indictment handed up Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury accused Murrill, the state's first female attorney general, with intimidation and malfeasance.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
After steering hiring toward workers of Latin American origin, the companies allegedly subjected those employees to intimidation and coercive working conditions.
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Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
2 July 2026
Civil liberties advocates have criticized the agency's recent use of these forms, calling them an intimidation tactic to silence critics.
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Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
1 July 2026
By Bay City News The Stockton City Council has approved an ordinance regulating the use of facial coverings when they are used to conceal a person’s identity in ways that provoke fear, intimidation, threats or violence.
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Bay City News,
Mercury News,
27 June 2026
Slobodan Dimitrijevic, 52, was also charged with stalking, plus four misdemeanors — criminal trespass, two counts of harassment and one count of intimidation.
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Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
An Indiana man is accused of stalking, harassment, intimidation and sending threatening and explicit messages to WNBA star Sophie Cunningham via social media, officials said.
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Madison Lambert,
NBC news,
24 June 2026
The ordinance applies when someone wears a mask to conceal their identity in a way that creates a reasonable fear of intimidation, threats or violence.
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Nina Burns,
CBS News,
24 June 2026
Safiyah Riddle,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2026
The 16-count indictment handed up Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury accused Murrill, the state's first female attorney general, with intimidation and malfeasance.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
After steering hiring toward workers of Latin American origin, the companies allegedly subjected those employees to intimidation and coercive working conditions.
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Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
2 July 2026
Civil liberties advocates have criticized the agency's recent use of these forms, calling them an intimidation tactic to silence critics.
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Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
1 July 2026
By Bay City News The Stockton City Council has approved an ordinance regulating the use of facial coverings when they are used to conceal a person’s identity in ways that provoke fear, intimidation, threats or violence.
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Bay City News,
Mercury News,
27 June 2026
Slobodan Dimitrijevic, 52, was also charged with stalking, plus four misdemeanors — criminal trespass, two counts of harassment and one count of intimidation.
—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
An Indiana man is accused of stalking, harassment, intimidation and sending threatening and explicit messages to WNBA star Sophie Cunningham via social media, officials said.
—
Madison Lambert,
NBC news,
24 June 2026
The ordinance applies when someone wears a mask to conceal their identity in a way that creates a reasonable fear of intimidation, threats or violence.
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Nina Burns,
CBS News,
24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intimidation
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Bell also spoke of the importance of prioritizing communication in their relationship — especially during moments of fear or insecurity.
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Our country right now is mired in a level of bullying and intolerance that, for some, might feed their fears, but won’t feed their family.
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Like Alito’s paisanes, my Mexican family was also demonized for supposedly being insufficiently American and posing a threat to national unity.
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Such a bond occurs when a judge grants a compassionate release for inmates who are in failing health and no longer a threat to the community.
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Was remembers the tumult, violence and hope that came out of that era in his hometown of Detroit.
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But the comments from Raia provide the clearest public indication yet that the FBI's Joint Mission Center, established earlier this year to coordinate the bureau's response to domestic political violence, is producing tangible investigative results.
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House Bill 582, known as the Survivor Justice Act, allows courts to consider reduced sentences for victims of domestic violence or human trafficking who committed crimes under coercion.
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Equality without liberty can become coercion in the name of fairness.
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France were controlled and devastating all at once; rarely at risk but always a menace.
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Every passing lawn and meadow, every winding path through the woods, seemed to hide a lurking menace.
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Thibault in a news conference Tuesday said that authorities believe the incident was not related to terror.
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Meanwhile, frightful aftershocks continued to rock the area, sowing terror in a population already reaching the limits of endurance.
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The result can be disruptions that affect public services even when the original objective was economic benefit rather than physical threats or terrorism.
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Sentences range from nearly two to 50 years, including terrorism and material-support convictions, following earlier trial verdicts that imposed up to 100 years on a former Marine reservist.
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These episodes have been triggered by intense heat domes — stubborn areas of high pressure that lock hot air in place — and are clearly supercharged by global warming, experts say.
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Even as the communist country proposes reforms, the United States continues a pressure campaign, ramping up economic sanctions and maintaining an oil embargo that has plunged much of the island into darkness.
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“Intimidation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intimidation. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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