reprieve

The pullback in oil futures is a welcome reprieve for the likes of JetBlue, Delta, and other major carriers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

With its scenic vistas and clear alpine waters, South Lake Tahoe long has been a destination for outdoor enthusiasts, vacationers and wealthy Californians looking for a reprieve from city life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Part of what hampered his chances of a reprieve were extracts from his diaries which were widely circulated, publicly outing him as a homosexual.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

There’s no question that we live in a uniquely difficult age, where reprieve is a hot commodity.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

I fold my hands across my body, grip my twisting stomach, and scan my memory for a moment of reprieve.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

The decline is on the larger end among the reprieves for U.S. trading partners.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

This could negatively impact Alcoa’s tariff reprieves on its Canadian aluminum.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

In return, the companies get administration-backed reprieves from potential new U.S. tariffs for three years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

The errors gave England reprieves worth 200 runs in the game.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

We say we're doing it, but by means of all sorts of reprieves, small irregularities and reasonable injustices, we manage not to do it.

From General Bramble by André Maurois

Finally, “The Idiot” is the novel in which Dostoevsky most fully dramatizes his own nightmarish experience of being led blindfolded before a firing squad in 1849, only to be reprieved at the last moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

But, shortly after, Jesse Kriel barged through Leroy Carter to cross at the other end and, reprieved, South Africa took full advantage.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The DOE review reprieved nearly 2,000 clean-technology projects, totaling close to $24 billion in funding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Given not out on the field, Weatherald was also reprieved on review by TV umpire Chris Gaffaney, despite small movement on the Snicko technology.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

I drift off, reprieved, relieved, and with the number eleven still flashing behind my eyelids.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

While it was Rory Burns reprieving Warner at the Gabba, this time it was Jos Buttler inexplicably shelling Marnus Labuschagne.

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021

President Madero was telegraphed to, and immediately replied, reprieving Villa's sentence, and ordering him to be sent to Mexico City pending further official investigation.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

What powerful influence induced the Prefect to risk the odium of reprieving a prisoner whose guilt was so satisfactorily ascertained as that of Ulpius never was disclosed.

From Antonina by Wilkie Collins

He refused to attend a cabinet meeting because he was trying to find a reason for reprieving a soldier.

From The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis

Cross-examining failed to get the statement from the woman that would justify my reprieving or pardoning him.

From The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess