breach
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U.S. refiners have stepped into the breach, boosting their exports sharply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In July, Castillo said he and Kyaw were formally charged with breach of trust over the Mercury contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
It seems to have resulted from a different sort of breach.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
But Seoul condemned it as a breach of trust.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Allied generals still dreamed of achieving a dramatic breakthrough, but every attempt to breach the German defenses was frustrated and repulsed.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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It was announced this week that the Abu Dhabi-backed club was found guilty of more than 100 breaches of financial rules in the world's richest domestic league.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Plus: English soccer giant Manchester City found guilty of sweeping financial breaches, and OpenAI scraps release of new AI model over safety concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Premier League published a redacted version of the commission's report, which said the charges "concerned well over 100 alleged individual breaches of Premier League Rules across four broad charge categories".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
It highlighted breaches of "the requirements for appropriate risk management and the legal obligations relating to the prevention of money laundering".
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
But the inside of a square is forever mysterious, unless some terrible accident or autopsy breaches the sides and exposes the interior parts.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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ET level since 2002—although the yield still hasn’t breached its 2007 intraday peak of 5.303%, a threshold more closely eyed on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
In July, holders of roughly $9 billion of Altice International’s bonds delivered a notice of default, alleging the company breached debt agreements through complex intercompany loans and asset transfers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The new disclosures came just days after Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that OpenAI agents had breached non-public files on the website of its government-run health care scheme, Medicare.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
The club was referred to an independent commission over allegations it breached financial rules between 2009 and 2018.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
“The vault in question was empty at the time,” snapped the goblin, and Harry understood that even though Griphook had left Gringotts, he was offended at the idea of its defenses being breached.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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In fact, the furthest it has ever gone in disciplinary matters was issuing a 10-point deduction to Everton in 2023 for breaching spending rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
And while Meta had removed the ads for breaching its own rules prior to the ASA's action, the social media giant has faced prior scrutiny over similar ads appearing on its platforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
U.S. diesel prices are soaring once again as the squeeze in the fuels market tightens, breaching $6 a gallon for the first time on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
While a single month above 1.5C does not mean it has been permanently crossed, it shows a trend towards breaching that limit.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Arion jumped over a breaching humpback whale and kept galloping, startling a pack of seals off an iceberg.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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