loophole

A "parliamentary loophole" was created to get around this, according to the History of Parliament blog, external.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Bills advanced by the Senate and Assembly aim to rework California’s climate spending, close an environmental review loophole and rein in electricity rates, among other efforts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Someone’s always trying to game the system, to exploit a loophole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The results were impacted by the expiration of the de minimis loophole last May for China and Hong Kong.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

And just as she’d found a loophole to allow her to make and sell whatnots, she found a loophole to allow her to use her own whatnots as body doubles.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

While pacing the frontier sounds compelling in theory, some believe these ambiguous definitions and loopholes make a slowdown functionally impossible.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

The family say they are working alongside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to remove "loopholes" from current legislation around banned dog breeds.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

And loopholes that let people get around rules to milk more from their rewards are being tightened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The loopholes have been glaring at the Ram temple, with the accused reportedly taking advantage of weak counting processes and surveillance lapses.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

“They stick a hundred- dollar fine on you for killing a gator. I’m telling you,” he laughed sourly, “they got all the loopholes plugged. There ain’t a way you can win in this state.”

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Any legislation however altruistic is loopholed to death.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

Swaney loopholed her way into a spot in the skiing halfpipe for Hungary and then cautiously coasted down the course.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2018

The small tanks streamed last week up the mountain road while Pathans in their little loopholed houses peered out goggle-eyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It spans what is now the principal street, and consists of two battlemented towers, pierced with loopholes in each of their four stories, and connected by a retiring wall also loopholed.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Author Stern began explaining the not-so-fine art of legal tax loopholing nine years ago in The Great Treasury Raid.

From Time Magazine Archive

They went to work, however, with a will, and for more than two hours employed themselves in loopholing the walls and constructing barricades between the two houses.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams

The enemy’s position was naturally strong, and was rendered more so by blockhouses, a stone fort and entrenchments cut in solid rock, and the loopholing of a solidly built stone church.

From The Boys of '98 by James Otis

These he made use of as forts, throwing into them little garrisons, and loopholing the walls.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson