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 While wielding a hammer, DeFoor reportedly breached the property line at the driveway and proceeded to target an unmarked federal law enforcement vehicle blocking the driveway entrance. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026 OpenAI's security and safety practices have been under intense scrutiny after the company disclosed that two of its models escaped their training environment, accessed the open web and breached Hugging Face's systems last month. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 Britain’s Health and Safety Executive, better known as HSE, concluded that the high-profile drama breached UK safety laws during production at Shinfield Studios earlier this year, according to a previously unreported ruling. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2026 His step no longer looked assured, his body appeared stiff and his warrior mentality finally breached. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026 Under its competition rule book, the bloc has also started an investigation into AI services, including whether Google breached EU competition rules in its use of AI overviews. — Barbara Moens, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026 If those thresholds are breached, the process should be reviewed, either by reducing automation or bringing a human into the loop earlier. — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026 Lately, though, Cox has worried that his sanctuary has been breached. — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 In an affidavit cited by the Dallas Morning News last month, Howard said Wirskye considered the agreement breached after Howard mentioned during opening statements that Anthony was in the chess club, straying beyond the events under the tent. — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breached
  1. violated
  2. broke
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  • The core of the Teamsters’ petition against the DMV is the claim that regulators violated the California Administrative Procedure Act by failing to complete an extensive study of the economic and practical impact of the policy change.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Meta also lost a separate social-media case brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, after a court found that the company violated the state's child-safety laws and ordered it to pay over $900 million in penalties.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of violated
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  • Last month, weeks after tens of thousands of students took to the streets of New Delhi demanding education reform, Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence on the seven-week protests.
    — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The stock just broke below the psychologically important $800 level.
    — Tony Zhang, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
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“Breached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breached. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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