Example Sentences

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This matters because a similar L.A. nonprofit devoted to county firefighters recently disbanded after facing allegations it had misused funds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said last month the Met had "misused" the power.

From BBC • May 25, 2023

The prime minister’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but he has previously called his siblings’ accusations that he had misused government power against them “entirely baseless.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Dr. Smith said that of the thousands of patients he had treated, only two or three had misused the drug, and that he got them help.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2023

I must admit that in writing this paper I was motivated partly by irritation with Bekenstein, who, I felt, had misused my discovery of the increase of the area of the event horizon.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking