as in to abuse
to put to a bad or improper use
a creative talent who was misemployed at the advertising agency as an account manager instead of a copywriter
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These violent online groups have allegedly abused hundreds of mostly female minor victims worldwide, according to Homeland Security Investigations.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026 -
Giuffre Roberts became a lightning rod to many people who said they'd been abused or trafficked by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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The beleaguered labor secretary had been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a member of her security detail on top of misusing her funds.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Feb. 2026
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Claude Code Security builds on over a year of research by the company’s Frontier Red Team, an internal group of about 15 researchers tasked with stress-testing the company’s most advanced AI systems and probing how they might be misused in areas such as cybersecurity.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Misemploy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misemploy. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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