abatement
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This "indicates conditions for corals are worsening significantly... not at all surprising given the accelerated warming and lack of abatement of global drivers of coral decline", said Obura.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Witkoff recently had to say goodbye to his own $24,000 a year abatement on a multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment—a perk his representatives said he didn’t realize he was receiving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lauren Truslow is chief executive of 3D Enviro, a Virginia company that does hazardous materials abatement with a handful of workers affected by the TPS expiration for El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was awarded nearly $1 billion in damages and abatement funds and Meta was ordered to make a number of changes to its apps similar to the ones laid out in the recent settlement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet’s ill-humour or ill health.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
When cities reduce direct cash contributions, owners typically ask for something else, like favorable land deals at below-market prices, tax abatements, new highway ramps and infrastructure built at public expense, sanitation and security services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the 2025 fiscal year, the IRS granted first-time penalty abatements to nearly 220,000 taxpayers, Collins said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Water Street in lower Manhattan has been a popular area for the makeovers, earning it the nickname "Conversion Alley," with buildings offering a mix of luxury and affordably-priced apartments to qualify for municipal abatements.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
What Chicago offered, however, were tax abatements and other benefits worth $60 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024
The privileges granted to the barons were either abatements in the rigor of the feudal law or determinations in points which had been left by that law or had become, by practice, arbitrary and ambiguous.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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