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Noun
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Dellinger sued, arguing that 1978 federal law creating his position states he can only be removed from his job because of inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025 -
The most recent examples of possible utility malfeasance were January’s Eaton fire, which decimated much of Altadena in eastern Los Angeles County, and the less damaging Hurst fire near the Sylmar district of Los Angeles.—
Thomas Elias,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now, the woman is suing the Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee, renamed Aurora Sinai after it was purchased in 1992, accusing it of medical malpractice because the feeding tube unknowingly remained in her body for 35 years, the lawsuit said.—
Kate Linderman,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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Lawmakers, economists and business groups widely criticized the tariffs, characterizing them as economic malpractice.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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This evidence was instrumental in establishing negligence.—
Lars Daniel,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Their comments came just a few weeks after a court in Argentina dropped charges of criminal negligence against three of the five people indicted in connection with the singer’s passing after a fall from a third-story balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina last October.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
3 Mar. 2025
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The main purpose was to allow prospective employers — other federal agencies or local police — to check their backgrounds for misconduct.—
Martin Kaste,
NPR,
28 Feb. 2025
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Between fiscal years 2015 to 2019, agency inspectors general substantiated only 100 allegations of employee time and attendance misconduct or fraud out of a federal workforce of around 2.1 million employees (the GAO report did not include postal workers).—
Laura Doan,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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He would be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, his soldier's image replaced with a mug shot.—
James Stolz,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Current law allows the state controller to send a delinquency notice to late filers, and then impose a small fine twenty days later, but there is no record of the controller collecting any late reporting fines.—
Marc Joffe,
Orange County Register,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Irresponsibility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irresponsibility. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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