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breach

[breech] / britʃ /




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He said there should be "proper accountability mechanisms" to hold ministers who breach the pledge of office to account.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Refuting claims that the exits were related to safety, the AI firm said an internal probe had uncovered "a significant breach of trust" beyond what they had disclosed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Only after more than two years of dithering did the court fire Mr. Khan for “serious misconduct and serious breach of duty.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Police said a security patrol had spotted an abandoned vehicle near the Molesworth base and police found a "small breach" before arresting the men in the early hours of Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

When it was finished it would be impregnable: no giant, no troll, no dwarf, no mortal would be able to breach that wall.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

The police department added that there were no signs of breaches to any departmental systems, and that its safeguarding processes stopped the fake tip from getting past its spam folder.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But the South Korean government said this week it was "highly likely" Artex had been used in data breaches at more than seven financial institutions, including major banks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Zanjani’s network established its presence on the exchange after Binance pleaded guilty in 2023 to U.S. anti-money-laundering violations and sanctions breaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Eckert has been sanctioned for three breaches of FA Rule E3.1.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The breaches threatened the lives of agents and created insidious doubts, with officials questioning each other’s loyalty.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

Mud and sand inundated the Long Beach Peninsula as waves breached the boardwalk’s protective timber bulkhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Two Latvian men arrested after a fence was breached at a Cambridgeshire RAF base have been bailed.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Snowflake previously said its platform had not been breached.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was December 1990, and I was traveling to Berlin with the re- porters covering secretary of state James A. Baker III. The Berlin Wall had been breached a year earlier, on November 9, 1989.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Nottingham Forest were another club punished previously for breaching PSR rules, with the City Ground side docked four points in March 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

The lawsuit alleged LaBeouf accused Barnett of breaching their settlement agreement by violating its nondisclosure provisions after she gave an interview to the Hollywood Reporter that was published in October 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

EET Fuels, formerly known as Essar, which runs Stanlow refinery, pleaded guilty this year to 12 charges of breaching environmental law between 2018 and 2020.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But it is also the setting for two starkly different tales about breaching those divides.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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