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be misappropriated
verb
To use something wrongly, or illegally
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Aid can be misappropriated to prop up the regime that caused the disaster in the first place, as is happening in North Korea and Zimbabwe.
However, he said it is "impossible for any automaker to control indirect or illegal channels through which our vehicles could be misappropriated, stolen or re-sold by independent third parties".
And with symbolic panache, he ordered it to re-convene on a sacred holiday — the Fourth of July — as if to recapture the ideals of independence and revolution for the North before they could be misappropriated by the South.
In a letter to the academy, Dr. Ronald Atlas, president of the American Society for Microbiology, wrote, "We are now being asked to allow authors to withhold critical information because of concern that significant data could be misappropriated or abused".
Instead, Hunan Huasheng arranges for them to be sewn on later to reduce the risk that the garments will be misappropriated before they leave the country, Mr. Mo said.
A consumer who uses a consolidator, especially, is trusting the company -- and the Internet at large -- with an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information that could be misappropriated by a rogue employee, a hacker or a con artist.
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Our data suggest that, at least in those particular networks and at those particular time scales, individuals with ASD may be misappropriating physiological and cognitive resources to perform the 2 tasks.
Life savings were misappropriated, regrettably.
Words are misappropriated and meanings twisted.
It's been misappropriated, what he was talking about.
"One-third of the city is misappropriated," Mr. Lebedev says.
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