breach
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Running a business, either directly or indirectly, would breach the terms of Hall's bankruptcy order and constitute a criminal offence.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Gox, said he was one of the victims of the breach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Siri AI can look through your iPhone’s most private data, which you wouldn’t want ending up in a data breach or training a future model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Earlier this year, AI agents were able to escape OpenAI safeguards and breach the systems of Hugging Face, a repository for open-source AI tools.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
We sail in silence waiting...waiting—then suddenly the whale, wrapped by the clinging body of the squid, does a full breach, barely fifty yards to starboard.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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In the U.S., law-enforcement officials have tied Chinese actors to breaches involving hundreds of millions of records—a haul of intelligence even a bureaucracy as massive as China’s would struggle to sift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Having checked with industry players, MS analysts see only a low probability of regulators severely punishing Australia-listed Tuas over its breaches of license conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In a blog post on Saturday, Amodei expressed concern about the possibility of AI agents swarming together, going rogue and conducting major cybersecurity breaches that could have devastating implications.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
There have been recent incidents of privacy breaches that have caught national attention.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Old fishermen with time on their hands built bonfires out of driftwood and warmed themselves while the sea made breaches in the hulls of ships that had come hard aground.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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The 10-year yield breached 5% just before a meeting of the Fed’s rate-setting committee, often a catalyst for major moves in the bond market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
While West Texas and Brent futures have both breached $100 and dominated this week’s newsflow, diesel is the energy that fuels shipping, trucking, agriculture, construction and mining.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Oil prices slipped in early trading after Brent crude breached $100 a barrel, as escalating attacks in the Middle East threatened to dramatically prolong disruptions to energy flows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
It entered the headlines in July, when some 700 autonomous agents built by OpenAI breached the platform after escaping an isolated test environment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Naturally, they didn't send us to Mars until they'd confirmed that all the supplies had made it to the surface and their containers weren't breached.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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And while Meta had removed the ads for breaching its own rules prior to the ASA's action, the social media giant has faced prior scrutiny over similar ads appearing on its platforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
In early trading, the benchmark Dutch TTF contract is flat at 79.21 euros a megawatt-hour after breaching 80 euros in the previous session.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
While a single month above 1.5C does not mean it has been permanently crossed, it shows a trend towards breaching that limit.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Some routinely put on a show: NYC0318, a whale also seen by AFP on a recent outing, often charms whale watchers with sensational lunge-feeds, breaching the water and prompting shrieks of delight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
More than this I cannot say without fear of breaching the Official Magical Secrets Act or, more importantly, the confidences that Dumbledore, most private of men, placed in me.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
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