How to Use nonconsensual in a Sentence

nonconsensual

adjective
  • The desire to avoid nonconsensual touch can, in other words, make one sick.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For example, there is a rise in nonconsensual choking, hair pulling and the like.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The actors union has kept its focus on a bill to outlaw nonconsensual deepfakes.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 May 2024
  • But the consensual/nonconsensual aspect of this is the key part of it.
    — David Marchese, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The fact that the person complied with the request does not render the encounter nonconsensual.
    — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • While deepfake videos have been around for more than half a decade—mostly used for nonconsensual pornography—they’re often glitchy and easy to spot.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024
  • There’s drama, jealousy, and even nonconsensual make out videos involved.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2020
  • That’s a nonconsensual, unequal form of interdependence, and the goal was a world where partners can meet as equals.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But many schools no longer require women to say or signal no in order for an encounter to be considered nonconsensual.
    — Emily Yoffe, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Now, the state defines rape as nonconsensual vaginal contact.
    — Saloni Sethi, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Protocols could be put in place to screen for and remove child abuse content and nonconsensual pornography from databases.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Budden, like many of his male counterparts, don’t see nonconsensual condom removal as a problem.
    — Ashley Cobb, Essence, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In her ruling, the judge wrote the state did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the interaction between the two was nonconsensual.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 14 June 2025
  • For years, nonconsensual deepfake pornography has been used to harass, silence, shame, and abuse women.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 25 June 2024
  • In Maryland, second-degree rape covers a range of nonconsensual acts.
    — Dan Morse, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The Journal notes there has been no allegation that the encounter was nonconsensual.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Researchers say while some women agree to mock abductions out of tradition, many others are nonconsensual.
    — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Strict rules against filming performances were designed to protect actors from nonconsensual broadcasts of their work.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2020
  • In Maryland, the crimes of first-degree rape and second-degree rape cover a range of nonconsensual acts that can involve the use of an object.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The suit was just the latest attempt to try to curtail the ever-growing issue of nonconsensual deepfake pornography.
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Grievous bodily harm, nonconsensual drugging, murder, yes…still, thank god there’s nothing unwholesome here, like say a man in a dress.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • For victims of nonconsensual pornography, the vast majority of whom are women, any law that provides means of legal recourse will come as good news.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 24 July 2019
  • At the precipice of her highest-profile role yet, Stalter is contemplating what the project might mean for nonconsensual probing into her own life.
    — Anna Peele, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2025
  • The widespread and quasi-nonconsensual viewing of such content is something that’s relatively new.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In Maryland, the crimes of first-degree rape and second-degree rape — both felonies — cover a range of nonconsensual acts that can involve the body or use of an object.
    — Dan Morse, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • And vaguely nonconsensual biometric-data collection, at least for now, seems to be a Wegmans thing.
    — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There were numerous other celebrities depicted in the video, seemingly all through the nonconsensual use of their likeness.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For instance, these images could be used to deceive people or spin up nonconsensual deepfakes of individuals.
    — Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The nonconsensual disclosure of such images isn't just schoolboy fun -- any more than the LA officers were just doing their job.
    — Danielle Keats Citron, CNN, 15 Sep. 2022
  • As a result, what should be one of the most joyful moments can instead become one marked by fear, confusion, and surveillance — all stemming from a nonconsensual test.
    — Dr. Mattie Renn, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026

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