lieu
Example Sentences
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But in lieu of an album drop, the mystery surrounding the Grammy-winning artist's upcoming nuptials is doing just as much to mobilise her fandom.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
He is being held in lieu of $1.4-million bail and faces 26 years in state prison if convicted as charged.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
Massie is a throwback libertarian who, in lieu of the standard lawmaker flag pin, wears on his lapel a national debt clock that he programmed himself.
From Slate • May 19, 2026
Many were not happy about the bonus program, especially the implication that it comes in lieu of giving raises to workers.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
She saw Punky Perkins, next to her in church, drop two buttons in the plate in lieu of the two pennies his mother had given him.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing lieu
The Tempest
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Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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