BREACHED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

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 A little more than two hours after the 911 call, with a regional SWAT team and Cowley County sheriff’s deputies joining the standoff, authorities breached the home and found the bodies, DeLong said. — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2026 But the screwworm flies breached the barrier in 2022 and have made their way northward, eventually leading to the new US cases in animals this year. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026 As the graphic below explains, tropical storm or hurricane status is reached when certain sustained wind thresholds are breached. — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 While the eggs were left unattended in March, ravens breached both eggs. — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Valve says no other purchase information was compromised, nor was payment information, passwords, or Steam Guard data; CEVA was breached, not Valve. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 10 Aug. 2026 Federal officials say water systems in at least a dozen states have been breached by cyberattacks, and that the list could grow. — CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 According to The Information, which first reported on the incident, Meta’s AI model breached an unnamed company’s systems and made changes to its internal system. — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026 Her entire face got licked clean off her head when suburban floodwaters breached the cardboard hull protecting Kath’s basement memorabilia stack a few months before I was born. — Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah violated the ceasefire by attacking Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon, seriously wounding three.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
McHale found that Washington is likely to succeed in proving its claims that Kalshi violated state laws on gambling and consumer protection.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026

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In Paris at the European championships, the corresponding major event across the pond, Italy’s Sara Curtis, who also trains at the University of Virginia, broke the three-year-old 50-meter backstroke mark.

— Peter Baugh, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
In the first semifinal, Swiatek broke Svitolina’s serve at love for a 5-3 lead in the third set.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

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