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Yet that’s also how Malone feels about the current climate of Hollywood — a once-stable neighborhood fending off malign forces.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

After the patrols got under way, there weren’t any suspected malign incidents for about a year, Abrahamson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, previously said the arrests were part of "a long-running investigation" and "ongoing work to disrupt malign activity where we suspect it".

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Schumer in his statement, noted that “Iran’s malign regional activities, nuclear ambitions, and harsh oppression of the Iranian people demands American strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity.”

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

“It's one thing to accuse me of laziness. But to malign the good name of America's greatest television judge—that's below the belt.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Much like the recent reclaiming of the bimbo as empowering and gossip as an act of feminist resistance, her L.A. hot girl TikToks remove guilt from the pleasure of feminine hobbies that patriarchy maligns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

But the movement has been getting pushback from some Hindu Americans who argue that such legislation maligns a specific community.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

The girls' family has also questioned the police's version, saying it maligns their daughters.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2022

These groups contend the scandal maligns the priesthood and harms the faith.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2019

And this is how the great State of Wisconsin, through its History Commission, maligns General Sickles and President Lincoln, who put upon General Sickles’ shoulders the stars of a Major-General.

From Reply of the Philadelphia Brigade Association to the Foolish and Absurd Narrative of Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell by Various

The author likens Grietje to the women of Salem and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, describing her as one of early America’s “unfairly and heinously maligned women.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

McKellen has made dozens of films since, from superhero blockbusters to character-driven indies like “Six Degrees of Separation” and musicals such as “Beauty and the Beast” and even the maligned “Cats.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Once maligned for taking on debt to fuel costly media acquisitions, AT&T has since sold off those units and refocused on core telecommunications activities.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026

Richly talented but much maligned, England captain Harry Brook finally achieved redemption at Pallekele stadium in Kandy after a torrid few months -- and came of age as a leader.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

And I, for one, am tired of the way black holes get maligned!

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

I am in no way maligning Tracey’s question, though.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024

Schultz and Gershman expect that, should Carroll proceed with another complaint and trial, Trump will receive much steeper punitive damages than previously adjudged as the court attempts to further deter him from maligning her.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024

It was put in place by the trial judge in October to stop Mr. Trump from maligning or threatening prosecutors, potential witnesses or court employees involved in the case.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge’s 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

It is greatly to the credit of the English chronicler that he was able to deal so fairly with the character of one whom he had not a few patriotic reasons for maligning.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin