as in mishandling
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Noun
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There were 11 deaths resulting from fireworks misuse or malfunction.—
Maddie Carr
July 4,
Kansas City Star,
4 July 2025 -
Of the 11 deaths that occurred in 2024, all were said to have followed either misuse of fireworks or malfunctions.—
Stephen J. Beard,
USA Today,
3 July 2025
Noun
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The trial in part stemmed from 2020 allegations from several of Paxton's former aides, who alleged abuse of office, bribery and other crimes.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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Many of these complications are meant to either limit the cost of tax breaks or to prevent anticipated abuses.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Noun
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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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“Mismanagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mismanagement. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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