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reprieve
noun as in relief of blame, responsibility
Example Sentences
The Supreme Court officially returns for a new term Monday after a summer break that wasn’t much of a reprieve.
Raymond James analyst John Ransom wrote in September that Oscar executives had told him that it “sees limited utility in a one-year reprieve.”
Le Maire agreed not to become a minister and Macron gave his outgoing prime minister a last-minute reprieve of 48 hours, to see if he could persuade LR into the government.
The question remains of whether this was a turning point or a temporary reprieve in a lost season, but at least for the moment everyone associated with the team could deeply exhale.
As a child, Baruch said, he would find brief reprieve from the tolls of addiction by visiting his grandmother’s house.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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