as in mishandling
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Noun
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Making the Connected Cameras feature widely available without the need for third-party apps will only make these forms of misuse.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025 -
Take advantage of this by enrolling before the June 30 deadline to keep tabs on your credit and detect potential misuse early.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Which means those bureaucracies are ripe for waste, fraud and abuse.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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He was ordered to surrender weapons and stay away from the domestic abuse victim, according to a court document, but he was not assigned electronic monitoring.—
Michael Dorgan,
Fox News,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Such misapplications of antitrust tend to reduce the competitive vitality of a nation’s firms, rendering them less effective on the global stage – and thereby reducing that nation’s competitiveness.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Among the soldiers is a cluster of combat veterans, many trained in allied countries, who voice concern about the misapplication of their battlefield expertise.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Mismanagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismanagement. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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