excise
Example Sentences
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This will be a tale of crime and punishment told in flashback, rewinding to Becket’s mother, an heiress excised from an eleven-figure fortune for giving birth as an unwed teenager.
From Los Angeles Times
There was no change in the price of tobacco products in the last quarter as changes to excise duty are due early this year.
From BBC
The legal market is built vertically: licenses, excise taxes, inspections and checkpoints.
Ms. McCracken has now collected the 280 excised notes and compiled them into a sometimes useful, always charming book roughly equal in length to the original novel.
If you contributed in a previous year, you’ll typically face a 6% excise tax for each year the money remained in your account.
From Los Angeles Times
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