misuse

Known popularly as the "corn" because of its resemblance to the summer barbecue staple, the towering former communist-era barracks' facelift is already under scrutiny for potential misuse of the central European country's public funds.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Comptroller Jonathan Gould called these banks’ debanking policies an “unfortunate” misuse of “their government-granted charter and market power.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Although most incidents involved accidental dosing or therapeutic mistakes rather than intentional misuse, the sheer size of the increase surprised the research team.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Health experts strongly advise against using them as a quick-fix to get "beach body" ready, although it is clear people do misuse them.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

The ultimate answer is to use less toxic chemicals so that the public hazard from their misuse is greatly reduced.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

Safeguards will be in place to ensure victims of sexual crime are not identified and anyone who misuses the footage could face contempt of court proceedings.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

The English Church still succeeded in preventing all the misuses and abuses of life under such circumstances.

From The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series by Velimirović, Nikolai

Studios worried about their intellectual property being misused, and actors feared becoming little more than raw material for AI systems -- and made it a central plank of their strike action in 2023.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

That would give the U.S. influence over the Saudi nuclear program and, Trump administration officials argue, a way to prevent it from being misused for military purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

For Carlo, those risks include the potential for sensitive children's data, such as proof of age and face scans, to be stolen and misused.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Anthropic said that there are safeguards in place to prevent the AI system from being misused for cybersecurity tasks and that no tester has been able to broadly bypass these guardrails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Not a single morsel would be dropped to the ground or go wasted, for it was said that if the food were able, it would weep tears at being misused in any manner.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

Some city leaders had also dinged the county for misusing homelessness money generated from a previous sales tax and argued this new pot of dollars would be handled no better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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

Many go through extensive training focused on not misusing client information for personal profit or leaving sensitive information in places where it could be overheard or picked up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 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

Grandma always brings up her younger sister Betsy’s misfortune as a warning to me about misusing my gift.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold