loopholes

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Loopholes and exemptions mean many goods avoid higher levies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Loopholes in current UK legislation mean plastic waste collectors are inadvertently incentivised to export rather than process domestically.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

If passed, the "Closing Loopholes Bill" will come into force on July 1, 2024.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023

Loopholes in U.S. press law have also made legitimate defamation and libel suits exceptionally difficult to win, forcing prosecutors to prove the accused's "state of mind" rather than a breach of policy.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

Loopholes squinted at us from countless low-lying barricades roughly made by heaping bricks and charred timbers together.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)