breached

past tense of breach

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of breached Sherfane Rutherford scored 49 not out off 26 balls to provide the final flourish, hitting four fours and three sixes, as West Indies breached 200. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Then one of them got robbed In January 2025, Gravy Analytics was breached. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026 For private schemes, the requirements include publicly available criteria, independent monitoring of compliance and procedures to withdraw or suspend a label when requirements are breached. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026 Mud and sand inundated the Long Beach Peninsula as waves breached the boardwalk’s protective timber bulkhead. — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Oceanfront homes in coastal California cities, such as Long Beach and Newport Beach, were partially submerged as heavy surf breached sand berms that had been erected to keep the water away. — Adrian Florido, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026 OpenAI enlisted two of its employees and a contractor to put together a postmortem report detailing how the company's models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached open-source developer platform Hugging Face. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026 In Long Beach, waves breached a bulkhead, flooding homes and nearby streets, according to the Long Beach Post and videos posted online. — N. Kirkpatrick, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026 After rising into the 90s last week, Sacramento topped out with a blazing high of 99 degrees on Saturday, while other parts of the Central Valley breached 100 degrees (looking at you Redding). — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breached
Verb
  • In a victory for the journalists, Kelly expanded a previous, temporary ruling that the administration had violated the news outlets' Fifth Amendment right to due process.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Nevertheless, even if the amendments had met the threshold and passed, the WIAA cannot implement a policy that is in violation of Washington state law and the amendments proposed would have violated state law.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • On this day in 1931, news broke that Al Capone, Chicago’s untouchable crime boss, had been found guilty.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • His 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to open the second half — his second in as many weeks — broke a scoreless first-half tie.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

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“Breached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breached. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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