Example Sentences

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Misusing corporate carbon damage figures could put the moving company out of business and he’d drive his stuff instead, so total carbon emissions would not be changed.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Ellen Peters is the director of the Center for Science Communication Research at the University of Oregon and the author of the forthcoming book “Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers.”

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

Misusing these images would be a PR scandal at the company-destroying end of the scale.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2018