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In more than a decade with the newspaper, López had often written about corruption and misuse of public funds and had received threats in connection to his reporting.

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It provides other nations with the balm of calling out US hypocrisy in the misuse of its powers, hypocrisy which is often measured in the distance between American soft power rhetoric and hard power actions.

The catastrophic risk associated with AI hinges more on misuse or poor development than on concerns about computers overtaking human society.

The details that have ended some recent political careers — such as involvement with a staffer or misuses of public funds — aren't part of this story.

It’s fair to say there are still many unanswered questions attached to the data misuse scandal.

Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused.

Other female penguins would have their babies “misused before the very eyes of its parents.”

Overall, there are some smart ideas in this film, but many of them feel misused.

What will the reaction be if cash released for “improved” nuclear behavior is misused?

But the data are constantly under revision and can often be misused and abused.

A good God would not permit that men charged with revealing His will should be misused.

Prepositions are especially liable to be misused, and their correct use comes from a study of literature, not of the dictionary.

The way in which the regulation of the Conqueror here referred to has been misunderstood and misused is curious.

The child singing-voice is not rough and harsh unless it is misused.

If this be the case, some of these beings may probably have misused their liberty, and become depraved and corrupt.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to misused, such as: dead, obsolete, wasted, abolished, annihilated, and bygone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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