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Known popularly as the "corn" because of its resemblance to the summer barbecue staple, the towering former communist-era barracks' facelift is already under scrutiny for potential misuse of the central European country's public funds.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Comptroller Jonathan Gould called these banks’ debanking policies an “unfortunate” misuse of “their government-granted charter and market power.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Although most incidents involved accidental dosing or therapeutic mistakes rather than intentional misuse, the sheer size of the increase surprised the research team.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

It has been involved in a protracted legal dispute with its former chief executive, Christopher Joell-Deshields, who was sacked following an investigation into alleged misuse of vouchers donated by a sponsor.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

She teased him about his misuse of commas—and fixed them for him.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Under current law, queries are reported annually to Congress so misuses of the program are identified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

"It misuses the gravity and impact of terrorism to expand it beyond those clear boundaries, to encompass further conduct that is already criminal under the law," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

In riper years when a boy misuses a knife, a toy, or something similar, the loss of the object for the time being must be the punishment.

From The Education of the Child by Key, Ellen

Studios worried about their intellectual property being misused, and actors feared becoming little more than raw material for AI systems -- and made it a central plank of their strike action in 2023.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

"Let me be absolutely clear: I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Anthropic said that there are safeguards in place to prevent the AI system from being misused for cybersecurity tasks and that no tester has been able to broadly bypass these guardrails.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Phillips, who was Talley’s predecessor as Collins’ chief of staff, is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over allegations that he hired his girlfriend for a no-show job and otherwise misused official funds.

From Slate ● May 28, 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

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

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

Davies agreed the onus should be on social media platforms to tighten up safety measures and added adults were also guilty of misusing social media.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Army special forces soldier, with misusing confidential information he was given about the plan to capture then-President Maduro in Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 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