misuse

Police across the US have quit, external or been fired, external for misuse of the technology.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The report comes after the company was sued by the Federal Trade Commission for alleged misuse of users’ information with third-patty advertising platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The rules standardise interactions between humans and machines to "prevent risks of misuse or abuse", the ministry said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

From the get-go, Beutner said he was concerned that some school systems would misuse the new arts money — leaving students no better off than before in terms of arts education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

But it is in the nature of punctuation lovers to care about such things, and I applaud all those who seek to protect the apostrophe from misuse.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

Under current law, queries are reported annually to Congress so misuses of the program are identified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

"It misuses the gravity and impact of terrorism to expand it beyond those clear boundaries, to encompass further conduct that is already criminal under the law," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Recently, she’s chronicled on X the expulsion of New York Republican George Santos, who was booted from the House following a searing ethics report detailing misuses of campaign funds.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

I was a devoted reader of his criticism, but I didn’t always appreciate his screeds about the misuses of multiculturalism or his insistence that artists had more important things to do than combating “social evils.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

Not the least glaring among the many misuses of words and forms of expression in conversation, occur by incorrectly employing the pronouns—who, which, what, and that.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

Executives griped to Dimon about what they saw as Bisignano’s use of company resources for his own benefit, including allegations Bisignano misused the corporate jet for personal purposes, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Meanwhile, writers and actors have expressed worries about their work being misused to train AI models.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

On AI safety, the G7 countries acknowledged "certain risks" posed by AI and that it "may be misused by malicious actors", committing to "adopting an innovation-friendly approach to addressing these risks".

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Phillips, who was Talley’s predecessor as Collins’ chief of staff, is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations that he hired his girlfriend for a no-show job and otherwise misused official funds.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

I must admit that in writing this paper I was motivated partly by irritation with Bekenstein, who, I felt, had misused my discovery of the increase of the area of the event horizon.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The judge ordered Guo to forfeit $889 million following his July 2024 felony conviction for misusing followers’ funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

In this age of fairness and reason, it’s hard to imagine a government official misusing power to keep secrets, but I’m told it happens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Army special forces soldier, with misusing confidential information he was given about the plan to capture then-President Maduro in Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who has contributed to The New York Times, PBS, and Al Jazeera English, was arrested on March 3 for allegedly spreading false information, harming national security and misusing his mobile phone.

From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026

Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly, the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for misusing a word.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry