misuse
noun
wrong or improper use; misapplication.
misused
Example Sentences
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Studios worried about their intellectual property being misused, and actors feared becoming little more than raw material for AI systems -- and made it a central plank of their strike action in 2023.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
As words such as trauma, boundaries and narcissism have entered the mainstream, they are more misused and diluted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
For Carlo, those risks include the potential for sensitive children's data, such as proof of age and face scans, to be stolen and misused.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Anthropic said that there are safeguards in place to prevent the AI system from being misused for cybersecurity tasks and that no tester has been able to broadly bypass these guardrails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Regression analysis, which attempts to relate the values of quantity X to those of quantity Y, is a very important tool in statistics but is frequently misused.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
