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There were 11 deaths resulting from fireworks misuse or malfunction.—
Maddie Carr
July 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 July 2025 -
Monitor, Detect And Continuously Improve: Continuously monitor AI behavior to detect anomalies and misuse.—
Art Gilliland,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Labor groups see home building as the Wild West of construction, rife with fly-by-night contractors, wage theft and physical hazards.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
13 July 2025
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No retail center in the Kansas City area is immune to thefts, burglaries, robberies or other felonies or misdemeanors.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
13 July 2025
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What Gauguin despised was the misapplication of religion, not religion itself.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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There have been, however, criticisms of the TCPA arising not so much from the text of the statute itself but rather from misapplications of the TCPA by the lower Texas courts.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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“Defalcation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defalcation. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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