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clause

[klawz] / klɔz /


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They have a buyback clause with Jarell Quansah, who left for Bayer Leverkusen for £35m last July, but there are no current plans for Quansah to return.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Fortunately, the reported deal contains an escape clause.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

There was another clause in Rashford's contract that allowed other clubs - Liverpool and Manchester City excepted - to buy him for £40m, which expired earlier in July.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

We dig into the prenup clause more couples are using and how people are doing some homework before watching “The Odyssey.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Foremost among them are the subordinator that and relative pronouns like which and who, which can signal the beginning of a relative clause.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But Marquez said an evacuation order would open up other resources for more residents, including home insurance clauses for homeowners that provides assistance.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that any deal to end the war "only has meaning when its clauses are valid and being implemented".

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

Right now, she said, she is working on prenups with these clauses for three different couples.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

This led to a change in the rules, with the two competitions inserting reciprocal clauses in their regulations.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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