abatement
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This "indicates conditions for corals are worsening significantly... not at all surprising given the accelerated warming and lack of abatement of global drivers of coral decline", said Obura.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Witkoff recently had to say goodbye to his own $24,000 a year abatement on a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment—a perk his representatives said he didn’t realize he was receiving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
A spokesman for Kliksberg said he inadvertently received the abatement because of a clerical error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lauren Truslow is chief executive of 3D Enviro, a Virginia company that does hazardous materials abatement with a handful of workers affected by the TPS expiration for El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The three women sat talking about various miseries they had had, their cure or abatement, what had helped.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
When cities reduce direct cash contributions, owners typically ask for something else, like favorable land deals at below-market prices, tax abatements, new highway ramps and infrastructure built at public expense, sanitation and security services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the 2025 fiscal year, the IRS granted first-time penalty abatements to nearly 220,000 taxpayers, Collins said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Water Street in lower Manhattan has been a popular area for the makeovers, earning it the nickname "Conversion Alley," with buildings offering a mix of luxury and affordably-priced apartments to qualify for municipal abatements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
In 2001, Boeing moved its headquarters from Seattle, where it had been founded in 1916, to Chicago, prompted largely by tens of millions of dollars in tax abatements and other benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
The power, the simplicity, the translucent, shining depth of the color were all that you can imagine, if you make no abatements, and task your imagination to the utmost.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 by Various
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