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[breech] / britʃ /




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Frustrated with ballooning legal costs and her handling of a department data breach, the city’s powerful police union abandoned Feldstein Soto and backed McKinney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” said Tomek Korbak, one of the fired researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Some large organisations said they had seen a high volume of attempts to breach their systems.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

A data breach could affect customers in the future if their personal information is used in so-called "phishing" attacks, where someone is tricked into revealing their password to an online service.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

She wondered if she had sustained a breach in her right main glove.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

More recently, there have been reports of security breaches in which sensitive data was made accessible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The barrels and breaches will be made for both 120m and 155mm weapon systems, including for the RCH 155 and future artillery platforms, according to Rheinmetall.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

TOKYO—Hackers used an artificial-intelligence tool made by a Chinese engineer to target companies in Japan, according to cybersecurity researchers, adding to a wave of breaches that highlight how AI-powered attacks can overwhelm cyber defenses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"They should be aware of legal and reputational consequences, including the risk of involving themselves in serious breaches of international law," Miliband said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

But with a shudder he thought of those closer to the breaches.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

"When our rules are breached, we act against the accounts involved, up to permanent bans."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The next key moving average to keep an eye on, which the Nasdaq hasn’t breached since March, is the 200-DMA, which many view as a dividing line between longer-term uptrends and downtrends.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves said the company has not breached the law and that temporary layoffs are needed due to tariff pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Narayan on Monday warned that "it seems likely, if not inevitable, that our own cyber defences will be breached".

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 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

Tales of artificial-intelligence agents breaching websites have been in the news for months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Siegel separately brought a new arbitration claim against Overdeck accusing him of breaching his fiduciary duty and having “undisclosed professional and financial conflicts of interest,” the investor letter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"In some cases, closure zones and antisocial behaviour orders which banned women from entire areas in some cases" led to "mass criminalisation because women were breaching those orders".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Nottingham Forest were another club punished previously for breaching PSR rules, with the City Ground side docked four points in March 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I was no longer extrapolating; I was looping it through the core, freely talking about my life, suddenly breaching the confidences of my father and my mother and my wife.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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