mishandle
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Last November, another employee at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant was found to have mishandled confidential documents by making copies of them and locking them in a desk.
From BBC
Solar panels are mostly recyclable, made of glass, aluminium, silver, and polymers - but trace toxic metals like lead and cadmium can pollute soil and water if mishandled.
From BBC
Experts, including two elected South Carolina coroners, said Spivey’s body appeared to have been illegally mishandled.
The summary explains that “very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling documents.”
His performance in office has been anything but impressive, with stories of his bumbling the early days of the Charlie Kirk investigation and his mishandling of the Epstein files.
From Salon
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