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Instead of saying “princes have persecuted me without a cause,’ David complains, ‘printers have persecuted me without a cause.’

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2017

As modern humans became the dominant carnivore, we have persecuted other large carnivores to extinction — which is why dogs are such an interesting puzzle.

From Scientific American • Feb. 5, 2013

Many of them have persecuted clergymen, as in the case of Methodism's founder, John Wesley, who was an interested observer of knockings, rappings and agitated warming pans at Epworth Rectory in 1716-17.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still she attempted to quiet fears that her new government would strike back at those she claims have persecuted her.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel therein a new form of the old hatred with which people have persecuted me, and endeavored quietly to wound me for years.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno