disregard
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One of the new laws, set to take effect in January, allows the government to disregard some opinions of the attorney general, which are currently binding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The changes also help to assuage potential anxiety operators might have felt about disregarding state and local laws and the lawsuits that result from that disregard for the law.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
"Older rent-stabilized buildings are already struggling under rising operating costs, yet the Board chose to disregard those realities," said James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The trade union Verdi said the proposal to scrap the early retirement scheme showed "a total disregard for the lifetime achievements of the people concerned".
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
As a child, she had learned very quickly to disregard the Father Bear Mother Bear stories she was given to read.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Hims & Hers said the suit disregards evidence it provided the FTC during the investigation and ignores industry standards in telehealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“This is a new phenomenon that disregards the idea that transparency and disclosure are important,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026
SSI provides very modest benefits because its asset limits and income disregards have not been updated in decades.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
It focuses tightly on the plain text of a law and disregards legislative history—committee reports, floor debates, and the like—as irrelevant.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
The law says the penalty is harsher if someone should have known of the risks and harsher still—manslaughter—if the person does know the risks and wantonly disregards them.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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“If contracts could be disregarded, market principles ignored, assets taken over and operators forced out at any time, who would have the confidence to invest and seek cooperation?” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Promoters of Graham Platner’s doomed Senate campaign in Maine disregarded that age-old warning, and now they are paying the price.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
"We want to make sure Australia doesn't become like other countries, where people have this sense they are disconnected from our economy and disregarded from our society," Chalmers said on Monday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Affected students' marks for the exam will be disregarded, with a mark instead being calculated for each student based on their performance in other components in the syllabus.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“I wanted, oh so badly, to come here; and disregarded my mother’s wishes, and paid a big price to come,” she confided to her diary.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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The changes also help to assuage potential anxiety operators might have felt about disregarding state and local laws and the lawsuits that result from that disregard for the law.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
Responding, Sir Keir accused Farage of disregarding pleas from Nowak's family that his death should not be used to stoke division in society.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
GM executives, meanwhile, met bonus targets based in part on disregarding the costs of its EV retreat and on an adjustment to exclude tariffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Barrett, too, sounded skeptical that Clement and Sauer could insist that Congress preserved one historical aspect of elections—requiring ballots on Election Day—while disregarding the rest.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2026
"This book,” said Chester, disregarding me, "tells us just what we need to know.”
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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