misuse

Example Sentences

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Civil liberties groups have long-standing concerns police can misuse body-worn cameras by switching them off during incidents or failing to disclose footage, raising questions regarding accountability.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

The court can dismiss trustees and rescind POAs when there is evidence of incompetence, negligence or misuse of a position.

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

If the government wants to know whether a model can meaningfully assist cyberattacks, biological misuse or autonomous weapons development, it shouldn’t publish a checklist every lab can optimize against and every adversary can study.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

But a confidential internal audit carried out by leadership at the 77th Street division in September 2023 seemed to suggest body camera misuse was more widespread, finding similar violations among patrol officers in other divisions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

But it was interesting, once I started to analyse and sort the examples, to discover that the greengrocer’s apostrophe formed just one depressing category of the overall, total, mind-bogglingly depressing misuse of the apostrophe.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author