Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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Enough said its wording on the number of rapes a year in the UK now referred to the "estimated" number, and that its kits "can in principle be admissible in court".
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
The early 2025 crime decline builds off numbers from 2023 and 2024 and appears to include not just homicide but also robberies, rapes, burglaries, and auto theft.
From Slate ● May 7, 2025
Kutcher said Masterson‘s family approached them after the actor was convicted in the rapes in May and asked them to write character letters describing “the person that we knew for 25 years.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
As of Aug. 5, homicides were down 25%, rapes had dropped by 56% and aggravated assaults had decreased by 22% compared with the same time last year, according to Atlanta police data.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023
French beans, wheat sodden in broth, aniseed, also onions, stewed garlic, leeks, yellow rapes, fresh mugwort roots, eringo roots confected, ginger connected, etc.
