loophole
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A "parliamentary loophole" was created to get around this, according to the History of Parliament blog, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Nirvana had made this small corporate alliance permissible a couple of years earlier, finding a loophole as Cobain wore a T-shirt that read “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” on their Rolling Stone cover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Rather than uncovering a loophole, they appear to have landed themselves squarely in legal jeopardy.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 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
“Ah!” said I, pressing him, for I thought I saw him near a loophole here; “but would that be your opinion at Walworth?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Even if AI labs collaborate to slow development, Gupta sees potential for loopholes to emerge.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Lane Kiffin, the school’s polarizing new head coach, lived up to his reputation as a master of loopholes by recruiting players straight out of NFL training camps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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
“There may be loopholes that folks find in this one, and they have to follow up and close those loopholes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
You’ve just got to make sure you close the loopholes!
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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 heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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
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
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