as in mismanaged
to manage badly
the ruling party was soundly defeated at the polls for having disastrously misgoverned the country
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René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has gone to the conservation lab at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after being accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
9 June 2026 -
About 2,500 houses and 117 government buildings and facilities were damaged in several provinces, according to an initial government damage assessment.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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In the lawsuit, council members Adam Bazaldua, Paula Blackmon, and Cara Mendelsohn say the city manager, Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, and city secretary, Bilierae Johnson, violated the Texas Open Meetings Act, the city charter, and the city's requirements for a transparent government.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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The lawsuit, filed in 2020, alleges that Trader Joe's violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) by printing the first 10 digits of customers' credit and debit card numbers on its receipts—most credit cards have 16 digits.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
8 June 2026
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Moreover, the states often abused their authority, both over their own citizens and with regard to each other.—
Jordan Cash,
The Conversation,
8 June 2026
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One victim said he was abused by Pinkerton between July 2007 and July 2009.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
8 June 2026
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The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Misgoverned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misgoverned. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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