Now the past exonerative and other slippery passive usages are rampant (or should that be, are being run rampantly?) throughout the press.

Mr. Prince responded on Twitter: “Phony fraud photographers keep mooching me. Why? I changed the game,” he wrote on Wednesday. His Instagram account, which previously had over 70,000 followers, is currently disabled.

Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife.

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