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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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“It’s well past time to review, revise and maybe even repeal it.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

An economic recovery and repeal of cross-ownership rules in the mid-1990s spurred further consolidation, as studios and their corporate parents snapped up broadcast and cable networks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Apple has been one of the law's fiercest critics, calling on the EU to repeal the DMA last year.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

Morgan analyst Rajat Gupta noted, the decline is tied to several factors, including the repeal of federal EV tax credits and backlash tied to CEO Elon Musk’s stint in the U.S. federal government.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

The protesters had issued an ultimatum, demanding that the government repeal the Black Act.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

Judges in New York and Washington blocked those repeals and said the high court had given “no explanation” for its decision upholding the repeal for Venezuelans.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.

From Science Daily Dec. 20, 2025

When asked by Batch if someone wearing a mask for health purposes in public would be violating the law, a legislative staff member said it would, because the bill repeals the exemption.

From Seattle Times May 14, 2024

Legislature repeals laws recently enacted for women; letters from Anna Dickinson and Greeley on the War; Miss Anthony's opinion of private schools; attends her last Teacher's Convention; in the Anti-Slavery lecture field; death of father.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Because the GPO has been repealed, your wife’s teacher pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

"The change that I was hoping to see through the amendment would have repealed that legal defence. It would not have created a new criminal offence and that's really important."

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

In 1933, by ratification of all the states, the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Changing that takes a lot more than repealing a law,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

But it soon became clear that repealing the previous legislation was one thing; how to replace it quite another.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

But along the way, it provides an argument for repealing it.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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