discretion
Example Sentences
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While civil-rights laws prohibit banks from discrimination in connection with their lending, firms have wide discretion around whom they decide to bank.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The warrant allows FBI officers the discretion to search digital devices or seize and transport them as part of the investigation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
That led them to “reject the mandatory statutes, which they regarded as barbaric, but uphold the guided discretion approach.”
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
Her discretion and immaculate appearance also made Bernadette Chirac into something of an icon herself.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
The order had come from higher, true, but still he should’ve exercised some field discretion.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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