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Recent Examples of breach
Noun
Next, see if your email has been exposed in past breaches. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025 Staffieri was appropriately shocked and disturbed by both the antisemitic display and the breach of internal protocol. Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
Men on horseback attempted to breach police lines by charging at law enforcement, police said. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025 According to computer simulations, these differences appeared to help lower disease transmission, reducing the risk of the fungal pathogen breaching the entire nest. NPR, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for breach
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breach
Noun
  • That will kick off a public process in which the City Council will carefully consider which violations warrant the use of of administrative citations and how the fines will be scaled.
    Wes Burdine, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Currently, nearly 60,000 people are being held by ICE, almost half have no criminal record, only immigration violations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nopales, like cruciferous vegetables such as kale, collards, and arugula, are rich in calcium and can help fill this nutrient gap.
    Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2025
  • That's an enormous gap, but what other team has a better claim as the league's 11th-best?
    Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In summer 2024, another complaint focused on the classified documents case, accusing the FBI of violating his privacy with the Mar-a-Lago raid and the DOJ of malicious prosecution.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The Kelly administration has refused to comply, contending that doing so would be a privacy breach that violates state and federal law because the USDA has indicated the data could be shared with outside groups.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Three Twitch streamers are currently facing copyright-infringement lawsuits from a popular YouTuber.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The company recently rolled out Sora 2, its most advanced video generation model, which ran into immediate copyright infringement issues and drew criticism after it was used to create deepfakes of historical figures including Martin Luther King Jr.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As Robert Kalmey observes, this moment encapsulates what Roman historians thought of as the worst of all of Octavius’s crimes against the state before becoming emperor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The lore behind one of Louisville's favorite hole in the wall restaurants begins with a gift.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Although the brain itself has no pain receptors, Bacon was given local anesthetic to numb her scalp and skull, as doctors made holes half the size of a small coin in her skull and implanted the stimulating electrodes inside.
    Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The strongman leader broke precedent to remain head of the party and the state for a third term starting in 2022, and has so far avoided elevating an heir apparent.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The church must name abuse as sin and reject any misuse of Scripture that justifies endurance in violence.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And my mom used to say, your sins will find you out.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Breach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breach. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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