breached

verb

past tense of breach
as in violated
to fail to keep a builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract

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Recent Examples of breached These young people have defied prohibitions on protest, breached draconian security clampdowns, and endured detentions to relentlessly question the government’s authority. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026 Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026 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 Residents say the developer is also seeking to have the agreement invalidated, arguing that the neighborhood association breached its terms. — Caroline Foreback, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 In the most infamous example, a swarm of 1,000 Open AI agents escaped their sandbox, commandeered online message boards to communicate with each other, and breached the systems of the open source AI community Hugging Face. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breached
  1. violated
  2. broke
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  • In January, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights concluded that the school violated Title IX over athletic participation, facilities and its response to complaints.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Unless disclosed to and approved by the US government and reported on his tax returns, Kushner’s access to the Alpha account may have violated US law.
    — Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of violated
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  • In mid-October, the company announced that the winner had been disqualified after organizers concluded that his use of generative AI broke the rules.
    — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Hours before Meta announced its Q3 results Wednesday, news broke that a New Mexico judge had ordered the company to pay $25 billion in penalties related to the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
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“Breached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breached. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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