breached

past tense of breach

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of breached The satirical remarks drew criticism after a man later breached security at the Washington Hilton event while armed with a shotgun, handgun and several knives. — Los Angeles Times, 6 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 DeKalb County on Thursday filed a lawsuit alleging that two limited liability companies associated with the founder of a local film studio breached a land-exchange contract with the county involving Intrenchment Creek Park. — Reed Williams, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Avira advises using a password manager to create and save a strong new password for any accounts that were breached. — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026 The central allegation would be that ASU had a duty of care to Mayich, that the school breached its own safety rules as well as those set by industry standards, and that the mistakes caused the injury. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 Sep. 2026 Nvidia said that its platform could have prevented OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident in July, where OpenAI models had breached open-source developer platform Hugging Face. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026 Earlier this year, CBKC filed a 128-page lawsuit against Kansas City, claiming the city breached its contract and applied a racist double standard to their store and neighborhood compared with wealthier, whiter parts of town. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026 And over the summer, two models that were being tested by OpenAI broke out of their isolated testing environment, gained internet access and breached another company called Hugging Face. — Joe Walsh, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breached
Verb
  • Bonta said his office is investigating whether OpenAI violated any laws and vowed to use the state’s enforcement powers to protect California residents.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The suit also claims UCLA violated its federal grant terms and asks for the funds to be repaid.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • With Vegas short-handed early in the second period, Seattle’s Brandon Montour broke his stick on a hard shot from the blue line.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In late September 2026, news broke that Seaver was fired as the country icon’s head of security.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2026

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“Breached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breached. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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