dangerous offender

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US and Canadian an offender who is deemed by a court of law to be likely to engage in further violent conduct, and who thus becomes eligible for an indefinite prison sentence

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How to use dangerous offender in a sentence

At 1:42 a.m., a commenter bluntly asked: “Jeff, Is it true you are a convicted sex offender?”
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To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.
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An additonal 30,000 made it to Europe by other routes including commercial flights and dangerous overland passages.
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The most dangerous attacks are those that undermine your perceived strength.
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There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
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The people here retained the same paganism and barbarity, only they were not so dangerous, being conquered by the Muscovites.
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The major-general kept him well informed of every movement of the enemy, and pointed out the dangerous isolation of Davout.
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Undesirable inhabitants of the country are being sent away, especially the Japanese, who are more dangerous than the Chinese.
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As if unwilling to trust himself longer in dangerous companionship, he went up to town with Thomas Carr.
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Why use dangerous cosmetics when Jones' soap retains youth and health for the complexion, and fosters the development of beauty?
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