reprieve
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Americans got some relief at the gas pump in recent weeks, but the reprieve may be short-lived.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
In the end, the intervention bought them only a short reprieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Asian stocks rose Friday as tech firms enjoyed a much-needed reprieve from the heavy selling of recent weeks, with a big miss on US jobs creation soothing worries over a Federal Reserve interest rate hike.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
“You can’t get any reprieve from it. Once you do get hot, you stay hot.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Their brief reprieve was over, however; people were coming at them from all directions.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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 US Constitution says that a president has the "power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, except in cases of impeachment".
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Similar short reprieves were granted to the Jews about to be exiled from Nicholayev, from the villages of the government of Kiev, and from other places.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.
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
The drama continued to the finish, with Bumrah having Lyon caught at slip on 33 in the final over only for Australia's number 10 to be reprieved by a no-ball.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
Salt was reprieved by being caught off a no-ball first up but there was no such luck for Will Jacks as he picked out Short at fine leg in the next over.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
Mark Wood had George Munsey, who made 41 not out from 31 balls, caught on 16 but the opener was reprieved when Wood was shown to have bowled a front-foot no-ball.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
When she discovered that she had nine months to go before the baby came, she felt like a reprieved criminal.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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
Cross-examining failed to get the statement from the woman that would justify my reprieving or pardoning him.
From The Daredevil by Daviess, Maria Thompson
Just go and tell Kiddle and the rest, that, in consideration of her general good conduct, I purpose reprieving her.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald
A Vestal can't use her prerogative of reprieving criminals," said Brinnaria, "unless she encounters by accident a criminal being led to execution.
From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas
"But I am given to understand that there is law for reprieving her, if it is in the king's pleasure," said Jeanie.
From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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