Breach
noun
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
A breach of confidentiality
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- breach of contract
- breach of trust
noun
A gap in a wall, barrier, or defense, especially one made by an attacking army or a harmful action.
The enemy made a breach in the wall
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- breach in the wall
- breach in defenses
verb
Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defense).
The river breached its banks
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- breach a wall
- breach defenses
verb
Break a rule, law, or agreement.
They breached the agreement by not paying on time
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- breach a contract
- breach a law
noun
The act of connecting to and stealing data from a network without the owner's permission.
The company has suffered a massive data breach
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- data breach
- security breach
noun
An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
A breach of confidentiality
Often appears as...
- breach of contract
- breach of trust
noun
A gap in a wall, barrier, or defense, especially one made by an attacking army or a harmful action.
The enemy made a breach in the wall
Often appears as...
- breach in the wall
- breach in defenses
verb
Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defense).
The river breached its banks
Often appears as...
- breach a wall
- breach defenses
verb
Break a rule, law, or agreement.
They breached the agreement by not paying on time
Often appears as...
- breach a contract
- breach a law
noun
The act of connecting to and stealing data from a network without the owner's permission.
The company has suffered a massive data breach
Often appears as...
- data breach
- security breach
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Legal Context
Used often in legal or formal contexts to describe failures to follow rules.
The judge ruled that there was a serious breach of court regulations.
Pro Tip 2/2Trust Implications
Suggests a loss of trust when someone breaks an agreement or confidence.
Her breach of confidentiality damaged her reputation severely.
Pro Tip 1/2Legal Context
Used often in legal or formal contexts to describe failures to follow rules.
The judge ruled that there was a serious breach of court regulations.
Pro Tip 2/2Trust Implications
Suggests a loss of trust when someone breaks an agreement or confidence.
Her breach of confidentiality damaged her reputation severely.
Pro Tip 1/2Legal Context
Used often in legal or formal contexts to describe failures to follow rules.
The judge ruled that there was a serious breach of court regulations.
Pro Tip 2/2Trust Implications
Suggests a loss of trust when someone breaks an agreement or confidence.
Her breach of confidentiality damaged her reputation severely.
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Orcas Kill, But Not Just...
They were also breaching up out of the water and tail slapping on the Steller sea lion, and this went on for for a good while. You can see that it was an instructional process. They were using the Steller sea lion as a teaching aid, and that was pretty uncomfortable to watch. It would appear to us to be incredibly cruel,
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The science of skin -...
Once they reach the surface, they form a tightly-overlapping, waterproof layer that’s difficult for invading microbes to breach. Any harmful microbes that make it into the epidermis will encounter Langerhans cells. This group of protective skin cells detects invaders
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What causes dandruff,...
and pry its barrier open, allowing water to escape. The body detects these breaches and responds defensively, causing the inflammation that gives dandruff it’s itch. It also makes the skin cells proliferate to repair the damaged barrier.
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What a world without...
What do we build instead of this? And then I heard about restorative justice. I felt at peace again, because here was an alternative system that says when a crime is committed, it is a breach of relationship,
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Orca's Extraordinary...
the rising tide breaches their nursery creating a narrow inlet to the pool and an opportunity for the intelligent organ she is thought to be the first of her kind in the world to hunt seals in this
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Floods 101 PIPE National...
with the full brunt of the Mississippi two-thirds of all the levees were breached though towns rallied to protect their lives and livelihoods the damage was still immense over ten billion
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How to build (and...
What if there's a data breach, and it feels an awful lot like a cover-up than seriously addressing it? And most tragically, what if a technological fail leads to the loss of human life?
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Ma Jun: An interactive...
Such kind of a microreporting has motivated some of the largest emitters to change behavior. This is one of them, a listed steel plant which used to breach the standards repeatedly.
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Deadly Killer Whale...
it just breached right in front of me wow look at that this is the wildlife spectacle of this part of the world
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Ducks Diving for Mussels...
breach in the icy barrier can be a lifeline
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Orcas Kill, But Not Just...
They were also breaching up out of the water and tail slapping on the Steller sea lion, and this went on for for a good while. You can see that it was an instructional process. They were using the Steller sea lion as a teaching aid, and that was pretty uncomfortable to watch. It would appear to us to be incredibly cruel,
Video examples
The science of skin -...
Once they reach the surface, they form a tightly-overlapping, waterproof layer that’s difficult for invading microbes to breach. Any harmful microbes that make it into the epidermis will encounter Langerhans cells. This group of protective skin cells detects invaders
Video examples
What causes dandruff,...
and pry its barrier open, allowing water to escape. The body detects these breaches and responds defensively, causing the inflammation that gives dandruff it’s itch. It also makes the skin cells proliferate to repair the damaged barrier.
Video examples
What a world without...
What do we build instead of this? And then I heard about restorative justice. I felt at peace again, because here was an alternative system that says when a crime is committed, it is a breach of relationship,
Video examples
Orca's Extraordinary...
the rising tide breaches their nursery creating a narrow inlet to the pool and an opportunity for the intelligent organ she is thought to be the first of her kind in the world to hunt seals in this
Video examples
Floods 101 PIPE National...
with the full brunt of the Mississippi two-thirds of all the levees were breached though towns rallied to protect their lives and livelihoods the damage was still immense over ten billion
Video examples
How to build (and...
What if there's a data breach, and it feels an awful lot like a cover-up than seriously addressing it? And most tragically, what if a technological fail leads to the loss of human life?
Video examples
Ma Jun: An interactive...
Such kind of a microreporting has motivated some of the largest emitters to change behavior. This is one of them, a listed steel plant which used to breach the standards repeatedly.
Video examples
Deadly Killer Whale...
it just breached right in front of me wow look at that this is the wildlife spectacle of this part of the world
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Ducks Diving for Mussels...
breach in the icy barrier can be a lifeline
Example 1 of 10
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John Delaney
American Politician
Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
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Mette Frederiksen
Danish Politician
When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.
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Joe Barton
American Politician
If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
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Malcolm Fraser
Australian Politician
It is ironic in today's world, but the core values, the protection of the law which we had thought to be universally accepted, has been seriously breached by the war on terrorism.
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William Mougayar
Canadian Businessman
In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and breaches.
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Radhika Apte
Indian Actress
I don't like people recognizing me all around the world. I really don't like that, as it's breach of my privacy.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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Robert Whittaker
Australian Athlete
If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.
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John Delaney
American Politician
Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
Quote examples
Mette Frederiksen
Danish Politician
When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.
Quote examples
Joe Barton
American Politician
If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
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Malcolm Fraser
Australian Politician
It is ironic in today's world, but the core values, the protection of the law which we had thought to be universally accepted, has been seriously breached by the war on terrorism.
Quote examples
William Mougayar
Canadian Businessman
In the blockchain world, each user can and should own their data, and 'central' players are less vulnerable to data losses and breaches.
Quote examples
Radhika Apte
Indian Actress
I don't like people recognizing me all around the world. I really don't like that, as it's breach of my privacy.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
Quote examples
Robert Whittaker
Australian Athlete
If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.
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