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# violate

verb

«violate» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

63 uses in 47 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a verb in 63 of 63. By the class of the article: company 13, country 13, university 8, city 6. Most often with: «law», «right», «claim», «state», «united».

### Examples

- In May 1999, two former volunteers filed a class-action lawsuit alleging AOL violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by treating volunteers like employees. — [AOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), sentence 251 («wiki:AOL:251»)
- They justified their request by referring to the Leninist tradition of the right of nations to self-determination, which they asserted was violated when Abkhazia's sovereignty was curtailed in 1931. — [Abkhazia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), sentence 163 («wiki:Abkhazia:163»)
- In August 2024, following the lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice in 2020, a United States district court found Alphabet guilty of violating anti-trust law. — [Alphabet Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), sentence 36 («wiki:Alphabet\_Inc.:36»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«AOL»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Abkhazia»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Alphabet Inc.»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.