Example Sentences

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One needn’t deplore the great work done by important journalists exposing sexual predation to fear that journalism alone cannot do the work of formal adjudicatory proceedings.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2019

Image: Eric Goldman / Santa Clara University Emoticons started appearing in court in 2004, and they have since been found most commonly in sexual predation cases.

From The Verge • Feb. 18, 2019

Rose McGowan, an alleged Weinstein victim and one of the first women who worked to expose the sexual predation of her industry, slammed the gesture of women wearing black evening gowns.

From Washington Times • Jan. 10, 2018

O’Keefe twice declined to address whether the failed sting operation at The Post made The Post’s earlier reporting on Moore, involving alleged sexual predation of teenagers, more credible.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2017

"Evangelical Christians ought to be the most dogged opponents of sexual predation and violence in the universe," Moore posted on Monday on Twitter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017