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misuse

[mis-yoos, mis-yooz] / mɪsˈjus, mɪsˈjuz /




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In fact, providers may face tort liability if negligent design causes harm through foreseeable misuse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

They alleged this spending constituted a misuse of funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Noem was summoned before Congress over those scandals and others, including her alleged misuse of government funds on television advertisements and private luxury jets.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

She had received unauthorised payments and had hidden the misuse of funds and mismanagement of the charity from Campbell.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

“It shall be my duty to protect the Book from discovery and misuse, and establish stability and peace for all the citizens of Kelanna.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

For man misuses his physiological estate, and lets things go to rack and ruin ere he wakes to realize how it might have been as to length of days and strength of body and mind.

From Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

It’s just that he also sees a power being created, which he cautioned his flock to remember, could be misused.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

A reporter on the Times, John Clare, discovered that another charity for which Archer worked alleged he had misused expenses with claims for meals at posh London restaurants.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

There’s a lot of therapy language being misused — people seem to think that if they speak in a soft, measured tone, they can’t possibly be toxic.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

"It's too easy for this to get misused against a population that doesn't pose a threat."

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Yet they were also aware that secrecy could be misused.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

A Lufkin officer was indicted Aug. 24 on 100 counts of misusing official information, which Abbott cited as a concerning development during a Friday radio interview.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

She is also locked in a separate legal spat over Levon’s estate, where she has accused her stepmother, Sandra “Sandy” Helm, of misusing funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

AI companies add safeguards to prevent hackers from misusing their products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

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


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