reprieve

Roberts described the two-day break from the lineup as not just a physical one, but also a mental reprieve for Ohtani.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The long weekend ahead is an early reprieve for some parents, students and teachers who are heading back to school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

In short, we determined that bankruptcy does give people a fresh start, but getting that reprieve takes longer than the law’s intent.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Governor Bill Lee, who granted Carruthers a one-year reprieve after the failed execution, has said that Carruthers' execution was not botched.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Thumbs-up meant a reprieve, a pause in the game, a sign of something well done.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Extradition requests typically drag on for months, sometimes years, as those targeted seek reprieves from Mexican courts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

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

To old Mrs. Prentiss, watching apprehensively each low mountain dawn, the long, golden days of the warm autumn formed a series of blessed reprieves from the loom which hung over her.

From Hillsboro People by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Ali was found to have overstepped and Root was reprieved on 23.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

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

Even at 464-8, England could have escaped with something manageable, yet the reprieved Salman combined with Shaheen Shah Afridi to push Pakistan beyond 500.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

It seemed good to be reprieved, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly into decay.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Some of his letters record his sense of painful responsibility when the question arose as to reprieving a prisoner.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen

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 Archibald Webb

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