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The phrase "abused in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing mistreatment or harm inflicted upon someone or something, often followed by a specific situation or context.
Example: "The animals were abused in a way that shocked the entire community."
Alternatives: "mistreated in a" or "victimized in a".
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"But maybe she dies or is abused in a nursing home.
What we were seeing was a woman apparently being violently abused in a very public place.
The 26-year-old plays a woman imprisoned and abused in a shed with her son.
Special trials under the Act were intended for terrorists, but they been abused in a number of high-profile cases.
I was verbally abused in a really threatening way by a group of men in the street.
"I think that might have been the gas and air, which I abused in a quite unnecessary fashion".
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But the book's publisher, Grove Press, said the Amazon review system was being abused in an organized campaign.
Of those abused outside the domestic setting (n = 20), 3 were abused in an organizational setting and 17 in public.
Everybody knows that Michael O'Brien has been abused in an institution," he said.
7 Definitions need to be clarified so that they adequately capture men's experiences of being abused in an intimate relationship.
Celeste responds to abuse in a manner that feels painfully realistic.
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