clause

Example Sentences

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It remains to be seen how that would be affected if the release clause is triggered and United have failed to meet his expectations.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

It has told some broadcast partners it would remove the 2029 opt-out clause if they are willing to pay more now, people familiar with those discussions said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Neither side thought that clause would ever be triggered; Lesch, a big, intimidating right-hander who threw bullets from behind Coke-bottle eyeglasses, wasn’t headed to a classroom, he was going to Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Social Security comes with a survivorship clause, meaning that when the spouse getting the higher Social Security payments dies, the surviving spouse can trade up and get the higher of the two payments.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker