clause
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They have a buyback clause with Jarell Quansah, who left for Bayer Leverkusen for £35m last July, but there are no current plans for Quansah to return.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Fortunately, the reported deal contains an escape clause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
There was another clause in Rashford's contract that allowed other clubs - Liverpool and Manchester City excepted - to buy him for £40m, which expired earlier in July.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
We dig into the prenup clause more couples are using and how people are doing some homework before watching “The Odyssey.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Foremost among them are the subordinator that and relative pronouns like which and who, which can signal the beginning of a relative clause.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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But Marquez said an evacuation order would open up other resources for more residents, including home insurance clauses for homeowners that provides assistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Iran's top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned that any deal to end the war "only has meaning when its clauses are valid and being implemented".
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Right now, she said, she is working on prenups with these clauses for three different couples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
This led to a change in the rules, with the two competitions inserting reciprocal clauses in their regulations.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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