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Recent Examples of misspend While Argentina has received massive IMF loans in the past, previous governments had misspent most of the funds on subsidies to win elections. Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025 Attorneys continue to await trial details for a former Caltrain manager who has been charged with misspending agency funds to build himself a secret apartment at a train station, and is expected to be challenged by his one-time co-defendant who has agreed to testify for the prosecution. Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 Local officials also break the law, such as when health officials in Mississippi misspent federal funds for needy people on a volleyball stadium. Kevin R. Kosar, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025 Attorneys continue to await trial details for a former Caltrain manager who has been charged with misspending agency funds to build himself a secret apartment at a train station, and is expected to be challenged by his one-time co-defendant who has agreed to testify for the prosecution. Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misspend
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spend
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  • Chopra is well known for spending much of his career developing, teaching, writing about and disseminating such practices.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
  • Taken together, this signals that tech and media behemoths are still betting that consumers will be willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands, to experience concerts, movies and sporting events beyond the confines of a traditional screen.
    Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 12 July 2025

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“Misspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misspend. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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