How to Use misuse in a Sentence

misuse

1 of 2 verb
Definition of misusenext
Synonyms for misusenext
  • She's charged with misusing company funds.
  • Mike Song thought about how AI can be abused and misused.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • What to Watch Out For It can be easy to misuse coffee grounds.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, ELLE Decor, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Joe was referring to the way mulch is misused in landscapes.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One of the deputies ordered her to pull over and cited her for misusing her car horn, according to the suit.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • In your example, though, got is misused as a present-tense verb and should be replaced by have.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Critics say that over time the law has been misused to stop projects rather than protect the environment.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • The more hands that can access your data, the higher the risk of that information being misused or stolen.
    — Shira Ovide, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The first can be misused while trying to get rid of ordinary income or capital gain on the sale of the property.
    — Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Otherwise, there isn’t really a way to misuse or overuse the treatment.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Wild West approach to exploiting vast amounts of data means that accidents can happen and misuse is par for the course.
    — Sunil Chathaveetil, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • When aides show up but misuse masks or have eschewed a vaccine, that necessary care becomes a threat.
    — Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022
  • My book discusses in detail the power of the prosecutor, and how that power can be and was misused.
    — WSJ, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Any new tech innovations, such as fire or the hammer, carried the risk that it could be misused, Ghodsi said.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
  • But since their commercial launch, people have complained the $29 tags are easy to misuse and enable stalkers to keep tabs on their victims.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Not only that, this cuticle work causes the risk of misusing an electric file.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, avoid choosing someone who may be inclined to misuse opioids themselves.
    — Sarah Fielding, Health.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • The New York Legislature surely did not intend or expect its laws to be misused.
    — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Critics and rights activists said the previous law was misused by the government to suppress dissent and freedom of speech.
    — Julhas Alam and Al-Emrun Garjon, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The exact cause of each fire ranged from flying sparks and improper disposal of fireworks to misuse of fireworks.
    — Sam Burdette, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
  • But, to date, there are few concrete examples of large language models being misused at scale.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The obvious ways these tools could be misused is spurring regulators around the world into action.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • But critics say open sourced AI models could lead to the technology being misused.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Critics denounced it as a waste of resources and a high-tech surveillance tool police would misuse on Black and Latino people.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Pictures of Lambert’s project have previously been misused to promote false claims about the harvest of adrenochrome from children.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The goal is to protect a vulnerable person’s well-being and their assets from being misused.
    — Naomi Cahn, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • County officials say many people who misuse prescriptions find the medicine at home or get it from family and friends.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • A number of gifted actors are either misused or wasted.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Many of the works will be lit up and others, with broken tubes or misusing electrical components, will be awaiting restoration.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • Never leave your receipts behind, because people could find them and misuse the data.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2021
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misuse

2 of 2 noun
  • No refunds will be offered on products damaged by misuse.
  • Poor oversight has, in some instances, allowed for the misuse of leave to go unchecked, the people said.
    — William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • By now, most people are aware that AI can present challenges in terms of bias as well as misuse.
    — Kevin Westcott, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Already banished for misuse, overuse and uselessness in 2012, the word has again appeared in the list.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The misuse of Lizzy Caplan in the inevitability of the big Lizzy Caplan [reveal].
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Apple has argued in the lawsuit that misuse of its products is not the company’s fault, but the fault of the user.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Rates of misuse were the highest in schools that had the highest rates of students being treated for ADHD.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That group had to give up its grant after a financial misuse scandal in late 2021.
    — Hannah Denham | Hdenham@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That notion rests on the misuse of a statistic: a large percentage of police killed on the job die at roadside pullovers.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2023
  • The committee will work to determine if there was waste or misuse.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2023
  • One of the sort of benchmark stories about misuse of Wegovy is the anecdotal story about Elon Musk.
    — Sheila Cosgrove Baylis, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • One of the biggest cryptocurrency traders, FTX, collapsed in late 2022 after news of the founder’s misuse of customer funds came to light.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Even for early adopters, the potential for misuse isn’t entirely out of mind.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
  • However, the use of some of these funds should have been monitored better to avoid various types of misuse and curb the size of such spending.
    — Robert Hormats, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Hill's complaint also alleges misuse of AI by the studio.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Schools with high or moderate rates of binge drinking also had higher rates of misuse.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But what’s to stop the misuse of these AIs to issue threats or say things unbecoming of their real-life doppelgängers?
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Nonetheless, something needs to happen: reports of misuse of trackers like these (and not just AirTag) have been widespread over the past few years.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 2 May 2023
  • All were there to address his misuse of cocaine, Adderall, Xanax, Klonopin and Percocet.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In the 2023 version, the oversight is an egregious misuse of Barrino and Henson’s talent.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But these tests and guidelines apply to only one of the models that Meta is releasing, which will be trained and fine-tuned in a way that contains guardrails and inhibits misuse.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • The law doesn’t require policies to cover criminal misuse of firearms.
    — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The appeal that will be heard Tuesday is the latest attempt to avoid facing the 17 counts of espionage and one count of computer misuse he has been charged with in the United States.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Image: Qualcomm There’s good reason to be concerned about the misuse of these tools, and to that end, Qualcomm is working with a company called Truepic.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Another concern raised by critics is the potential for misuse or abuse of delta-8 THC.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Tobacco use fell by over 10 points and misuse of drugs sank by nearly 3 percentage points.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The bill would prevent any future misuse of campaign funds, the authors said in the co-sponsorship memo, and prevent any benefit to the person found guilty in the future.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
  • That is a term for testing software for potential misuse and figuring out ways to protect against such abuse.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • Five of those deaths were associated with fireworks misuse, with victims ranging from 11 to 43 years of age.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 4 July 2023
  • Only a handful of studies—mostly from the 1980s—have looked into the caloric effects of purging through laxative misuse.
    — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023

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