breach
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Whales and sharks breach and hunt in the waters beyond the thick kelp forests that tickle its edges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
In the coming days the U.S. national debt is set to breach $40 trillion for the first time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Meta, Oakley and Ray-Ban face a criminal complaint in Germany over whether the companies’ AI glasses breach the country’s strict privacy rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"We accept it was a data breach," Clarkson said.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
His bosses, however, were adamant that the article amounted to a security breach.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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On a practical level, he added, the data sharing increased the risk of breaches that can open law-abiding citizens up to identity theft.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Ultimately, the report concluded, the department “contained the unrest” without any loss of life or “major breaches of critical infrastructure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Cassia Rowland from the IFG said most recalls are for breaches of licence conditions, such as missed appointments, rather than offenders committing further offences or posing a serious risk to the public.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
"Vogel’s got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?"
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Meanwhile, the Romanian defence ministry said a Spanish fighter jet shot down a drone that had breached its airspace near the border with Ukraine and Moldova.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
He said the public still does not know enough about the situation or whether the data is secure or if it was breached, and said lawmakers should examine whether any laws or policies were violated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ofcom said the incident breached Rule 5.1, which requires news to be reported with due accuracy, and Rule 5.2, which says significant mistakes must be corrected quickly.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The regulator, which received two complaints about the broadcast, said the "very significant inaccuracy" and the "considerable length of time" taken to acknowledge the error breached two of its rules.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The moon was just a sliver, and after I breached the initial overgrowth, the trees became high enough to block out its meager light.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The shark made a few circles, its fins at times breaching the water’s surface as stunned fishermen looked on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Chelsea have been fined £10m and given a suspended two-window registration ban by the Football Association for breaching rules relating to payments to agents between 2009 and 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The fighting has sent energy prices soaring once more, with the benchmark oil futures contract breaching $100 per barrel for the first time since late May, when energy prices were on their way down.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
The latest was a $1 billion fine on Alphabet’s Google for breaching digital competition rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But it is also the setting for two starkly different tales about breaching those divides.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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