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loophole

[loop-hohl] / ˈlupˌhoʊl /


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As of next month, a loophole that allows her to personally import the medication, Xifaxan, for her painful gut condition, is closing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

A "parliamentary loophole" was created to get around this, according to the History of Parliament blog, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Bills advanced by the Senate and Assembly aim to rework California’s climate spending, close an environmental review loophole and rein in electricity rates, among other efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Compounding the anonymity, these shell companies often benefit from an enormous loophole: They rarely pay federal taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

He thought he could see Kreacher struggling to see a loophole in the instructions he had just been given and waited.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Even if AI labs collaborate to slow development, Gupta sees potential for loopholes to emerge.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The family say they are working alongside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to remove "loopholes" from current legislation around banned dog breeds.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Missouri’s Legislature passed a law last year to protect residential consumers from price spikes caused by large users, though critics complain it has loopholes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The section’s vague language and many loopholes could have a chilling effect on any research that studies the effects of a disease, policy or public health intervention on any specific group of people, Rafla-Yuan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

“There’s too many loopholes in here,” he declared, twice.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Any legislation however altruistic is loopholed to death.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

Swaney loopholed her way into a spot in the skiing halfpipe for Hungary and then cautiously coasted down the course.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2018

The small tanks streamed last week up the mountain road while Pathans in their little loopholed houses peered out goggle-eyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The loopholed walls connecting the various barrack-rooms were low; and a man could scale them at any point.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

Author Stern began explaining the not-so-fine art of legal tax loopholing nine years ago in The Great Treasury Raid.

From Time Magazine Archive

They went to work, however, with a will, and for more than two hours employed themselves in loopholing the walls and constructing barricades between the two houses.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams

The enemy’s position was naturally strong, and was rendered more so by blockhouses, a stone fort and entrenchments cut in solid rock, and the loopholing of a solidly built stone church.

From The Boys of '98 by James Otis

These he made use of as forts, throwing into them little garrisons, and loopholing the walls.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson




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