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That video circulated rapidly on TikTok and other social media, leading to rumors and allegations that Halili and Reitsma had behaved abusively to fans who had trusted in them as "ministers."

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

Among the proposals were better pay for stunt coordinators, being granted residuals from network reruns and high-budget streaming shows, and overtime or rest between work days “to address abusively long hours on set.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2023

The industry group, which called Miller High Life “beer cans abusively bearing the designation Champagne” in the title of a press release, paid for the termination of the beer cans.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Ms. Ellison said in an interview that they remain close and that she has never seen him behave abusively.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018

Yet, though he wrote so abusively about her, he concerned himself with a new edition of the Court Poems, though with what right has never transpired.

From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Melville, Lewis