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[breech] / britʃ /




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The decision follows a report in The Telegraph which said embedded civil servants had been engaging in editorial tasks and raised questions about a breach of impartiality rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Dr Carolina Are, a digital criminologist at the London School of Economics who studies social media moderation of women's content, said research shows AI is often used to flag posts that might breach platform guidelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The court ruled that Swisscom did not hold a dominant market position and did not breach competition law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Well, considering. We've refortified the breach in the outer wall and the patrols are back on the job. Did your girl fill you in on the details of our engagement last night?”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Artificial intelligence is also being used by bad actors for deepfake voice impersonations, more personalized “realistic” dialogue, and “data mashing” from various breaches to compile a hyperpersonalized profile of the would-be victim.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

A new system, currently under testing, is being implemented to protect patient records in future and alert the trust of potential breaches.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Since the ban took effect, education authorities across Austria have held 127 meetings with parents and filed 52 reports over alleged breaches of the law, according to the education ministry.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sunday's match at Anfield was City's first game after an independent commission found the club guilty of charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

They have to do with bad manners, or worse, breaches of faith and loyalty.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

The next key moving average to keep an eye on, which the Nasdaq hasn’t breached since March, is the 200-DMA, which many view as a dividing line between longer-term uptrends and downtrends.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cliffs Chief Executive Lourenco Goncalves said the company hasn’t breached the law and that a temporary reduction in headcount is needed as it refocuses its operations to counter the pressure on the industry from tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Narayan on Monday warned that "it seems likely, if not inevitable, that our own cyber defences will be breached".

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Newport Beach spent the weekend working around the clock to protect homes after waves breached the city’s defenses along Balboa Peninsula.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

A tractor at last breached a hole in the seawall, and a few men began to go through.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Siegel separately brought a new arbitration claim against Overdeck accusing him of breaching his fiduciary duty and having “undisclosed professional and financial conflicts of interest,” the investor letter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Where costs rise above the ceiling, refiners and importers will carry the shortfall and recover it later when crude prices or exchange rates allow without breaching the ceiling," he said,

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Since 2024, there has been a fivefold increase in the number of North Korean troops breaching the border with the South in order to fortify it, according to Seoul’s military.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Premier League case found City guilty of five charges of breaching Uefa's profit and sustainability rules.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“They look like they might be breaching the north battlements, they’ve brought giants of their own!”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling


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