stipulate
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The simplest approach would be to amend the statutory language to stipulate that, similar to the GAO, the Federal Reserve is “an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
All were required by court order to stipulate how they came to their decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The terms stipulate that Canada will make payments into a US economic development fund of the equivalent of 50 percent of net revenue generated by the bridge for a period of 15 years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
One significant regulatory hurdle to any EasyJet takeover is that European Union regulations stipulate the carrier must be majority-owned by EU citizens.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“This conclave cannot stipulate how I train my apprentices! It is my sole right to teach them, train them, and discipline them!”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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It stipulates that an armed attack on any one of them will be regarded as an attack on all three.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The IRS stipulates that pay must be “reasonable” and states that organizations should rely on a comparison of pay across organizations doing similar work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The efficient-markets hypothesis, developed decades ago by economists at the University of Chicago, stipulates that all available information is already factored into the market price.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
The RFU stipulates a "zero-tolerance approach" to discrimination and harassment and forbids public comment that could damage the game or the union's reputation.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
“Tano had a lot of goons,” Autumn stipulates, finger-spelling goons.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Lofgren and Amo noted in their letter that the Energy secretary spoke to the Science Committee more than three weeks after department attorneys stipulated to the opposite in court documents signed May 15, 2026.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Privately, Paramount officials were worried they might lose that round before Martínez-Olguín so, during negotiations with the states, Paramount stipulated that it would not close the deal on its preferred timetable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
"All of the things that it stipulated have now been undone."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Refilling global stocks is likely to take months if not years, longer than the 60 days stipulated in the MOU to settle thorny issues such as Iran’s nuclear program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Who ever sees dead birds, in anything like the huge numbers stipulated by the certainty of the death of all birds?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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Aside from stipulating how to divide assets, it safeguards which children from prior relationships will receive an inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Matt Fitzgerald, Santander Consumer’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, described a conversation with Dundon about “stips,” or statements stipulating the borrower’s income, address and phone number have been verified.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
The Uniform Code of Military Justice, or UCMJ, contains several provisions stipulating that servicemembers are liable for illegal orders even if they were given by a superior officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The decree cited laws stipulating that a Malagasy who voluntarily acquires a foreign nationality loses their Malagasy nationality.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
It was a nondisclosure form stipulating that father and son would not tell anyone what had gone on inside the prison.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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