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Langley told a TED audience in April that the misuse of the company’s technology was “a trade-off I can make” compared to the number of investigations he said it assists with.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Some critics of the policy warn that airlines could misuse this freedom to entice customers with low base fares and high fees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

The Roundtable pushed for the legislation amid growing concerns about the possibility of misuse, said Florino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

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

Suppose the hirer misuses the car, what can the owner do?

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles

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

Nevertheless, he does not deny that Flock has been misused by members of law enforcement.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

A group of seven states also challenged the TotalEnergies agreement in court, arguing that the deal misused government funds and failed to follow proper administrative procedures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

There is the possibility of the models’ being misused for cyber or biological attacks, Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei said in a recent blog post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

This chemical was misused by a number of cranberry growers in 1959, producing residues on some of the marketed berries.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

In 2024, a jury found former leader Wayne LaPierre liable for misusing millions on private-plane rides and luxury vacations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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

My mother said we were misusing the word; you could not call a Kleenex kira-kira.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata