moratorium
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Reading about the city’s upcoming moratorium on delivery robots, I literally cheered.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Concerns about energy demand are real, but a moratorium doesn’t solve them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
In the coming weeks, Maine could become the first state to enact a moratorium on construction of these massive facilities -- which house millions of processors that form the backbone of the internet and AI.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
A moratorium would send the wrong signal at the wrong time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The rate of incarceration in 1972 was at a level so low that it no longer seems in the realm of possibility, but for moratorium supporters, that magnitude of imprisonment was egregiously high.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing moratorium
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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