clause

Example Sentences

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Lower courts blocked the move, citing the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

With knockout power stacked heavily on both sides, the fight lived up to its 'don't blink' tagline as promoter Frank Warren confirmed there is a rematch clause.

From BBC • May 9, 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

Wilson says the board was seeking to have him put millions of dollars into an escrow account to cover a “hypothetical, potential future breach of the nondisparagement” clause.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

In Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, for example, opponents of the Constitution objected to the implicit acceptance of slavery’s persistence, represented by the three-fifths clause and the twenty-year extension of the slave trade.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis