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amendment

[uh-mend-muhnt] / əˈmɛnd mənt /




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A bipartisan amendment introduced in June to the National Defense Authorization Act would extend the familiar principle of fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or Frand, licensing—long applied to technologies essential to industry standards—to foreign-owned critical ISAs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

In Florida, a constitutional amendment would pave the way to ending many property-tax bills for full-time residents.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

And he rooted his holding in the alleged “original meaning” of the amendment through analysis that appeared to be steeped in historical texts.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

While both organizations advocated for voting rights for women, the National favored a federal amendment, while the American worked to pass women’s voting rights at the state level, state by state.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The Board of Supervisors did not take up the requested amendments before voting for the motion.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Your friend would need to ensure that the trust’s terms and governing amendments are rock solid.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

But the bill was not passed by the House of Lords, after an unprecedented number of suggested amendments delayed its progress until it ran out of time in April this year.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

That debate over the declaration helped engender the equal citizenship amendments added to the 1789 Constitution at the Civil War’s end—specifically, as the Supreme Court recounts, in the 14th Amendment’s first sentence repudiating Dred Scott.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

But in the end, history is not just about wars and constitutional amendments, facts we memorize.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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