Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronged
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Generally, men and women are equally victimized by scammers, said Amy Nofziger, senior director of victim support for the AARP Fraud Watch Network, a free resource for consumers to learn about scams and report them.
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The poll found the majority of Republicans, 52%, and a plurality of MAGA supporters, 45%, oppose the controversial fund set up by the Justice Department to pay people who believe they’ve been victimized by the government.
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Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
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The album is both plea, polemic and protest, but its argument — that oppressed and working people deserve rights and dignity, and that those things have historically been won through rebellion and revolution — is hardly radical.
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No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
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Germany’s aid cuts may have already harmed it on the international stage.
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In 2023, two adults harassed a 9-year-old child at an elementary school track meet.
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The operation, ProPublica found, ensnared innocent residents of the majority-Black city who said they were targeted and harassed because of their race.
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In Britain, all the large predators had long since been exterminated and the smaller ones (like foxes) were ruthlessly persecuted.
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Supporting people who have too often been, and continue to be, persecuted and othered would be a direct way to address the suffering.
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In a later post on Telegram, Klitschko said Kyiv also came under ballistic missile attack, with five people injured in one of the central districts.
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The Tacoma Fire Department (TFD) later said no firefighters or residents were injured.
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In that movie, Depp played a young woman who is tormented after vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård) becomes obsessed with her.
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Alex Freeman tormented his opponents in Seattle on Friday, 30 years after his famous dad did the same.
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Pluverge, an ice cream maker at Taste the Tropics, came to the United States on asylum after he was kidnapped and tortured by gang members in his home country.
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This is just one in a sweaty dungeon of hundreds of TikTok videos that show women being stalked, grabbed, tortured, tossed to the ground, and handcuffed by scary masked soldiers.
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“Wronged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wronged. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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