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infraction
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  • Dozens of men were lined up and clubbed in the knees for one man's alleged infraction.†  (source)
  • Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a disquieting scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn't understand.†  (source)
  • And in the manager's office, Mr. Halecki still sits behind his spotless desk (though a new assistant manager with the smile of an ecclesiast is prone to interrupt his reveries over the slightest infraction of the hotel's rules).†  (source)
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  • Withholding my alleged paycheck for some imaginary infraction.†  (source)
  • Minor infractions were tolerated and "he's just being a boy" was an all-purpose excuse for anything short of a felony.†  (source)
  • I will not wage war against Earth for this infraction.†  (source)
  • Any other employee would've been out the door a dozen minor infractions ago.†  (source)
  • Someone made a long speech listing every infraction of the rules we were committing that night.†  (source)
  • Her fuse was as short as I had seen it, and the smallest infractions—a cupboard door left open, crumbs on the counter—would set her off.†  (source)
  • The penalty for this and for any other Level Four Infraction is expulsion.†  (source)
  • The minor infractions of youth—in one case an act committed at age eight—prevented two from ever being trusted again.†  (source)
  • When they called me out of school over the port, the message said I'd committed an Infraction.†  (source)
  • There were repeated infractions leading up to that.†  (source)
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