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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alleged rape" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts or discussions to refer to a claim of rape that has not yet been proven or confirmed.
Example: "The defendant was charged with alleged rape, and the trial is set to begin next month."
Alternatives: "purported rape" or "claimed rape".
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On the other hand, cases of false allegations and alleged rape may also be included in the study, however it is assumed that the proportion would be small.
The plight of Somali journalists recently received worldwide attention [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/05/somali-woman-jailed-claiming-raped] after Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim interviewed an alleged rape victim, Lul Ali Osman Barake, and both were sentenced to a year in prison.
The woman alleged rape; Reeves insisted it was consensual.
Warning: Contains graphic description of alleged rape some readers may find upsetting.
The woman alleged rape, for crying out loud, which was backed up by physical (and other) evidence.
Neither did the anonymous woman who alleged rape in the earlier New Yorker article, although two others did.
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The protest followed a spate of reports in the Israeli media of a "crime wave" – including alleged rapes, assaults and robberies – blamed on migrants.
New Delhi is, of course, the city where a passenger was alleged raped by an Uber driver in December.
Update: Uber has been banned in New Delhi, Economic Times reports, marking the latest turn of events that began when a driver alleged raped a female passenger late on Friday.
Cosby's moralizing by day and alleged raping by night was not hypocrisy.
Last year, the state enacted a law doing away ― as of 2017 ― with the time limit for prosecuting alleged rapes.
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