as in illegality
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Recent Examples of unlawfulness
Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.
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Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unlawfulness
Noun
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The potential illegality of the strikes should alarm Americans.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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Village League representatives were assassinated by activists, and most of the Palestinian population continued to regard the PLO (and the various political factions that constituted it) as their sole legitimate representative, despite its illegality.—
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August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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But the question, as Stephanopoulos kept insisting, was not about whether this rose to the level of criminality.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Be the literal poster children for adolescent criminality?—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This franchise was once labeled the Jail Blazers for an era in the early 2000s that included transgressions of marijuana use, dogfighting, domestic abuse, fighting and drag racing.—
Jason Quick,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Separate Oklahoma court records reviewed by PEOPLE show that Rodriquez was charged in 2021 with child neglect and domestic abuse — assault and battery in the presence of a child.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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There is no justification for this ongoing lawlessness.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The White House regularly characterizes undocumented immigrants as drivers of urban lawlessness, even though the data show that is not true.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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Now its economy has collapsed under the weight of corruption, mismanagement, human rights violations and other woes.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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That’s what happened in October 2019, when demonstrations against corruption and high unemployment broke out across Iraq, leading to street clashes that left hundreds of people dead.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Unlawfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unlawfulness. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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