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object

[ob-jikt, -jekt, uhb-jekt] / ΛˆΙ’b dΚ’Ιͺkt, -dΚ’Ι›kt, Ι™bˈdΚ’Ι›kt /


NOUN
aim, recipient
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Board member Nick Melvoin also expressed surprise, although like Gonez, he did not object to the de facto moratorium.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Leadership coach and business psychologist Jacqueline Ackerman says that workforces generally don't object to a young person taking over because of their age.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

As part of the tie-up, “xStocks”—tokens that are one-to-one backed by listed equities—will begin trading on the London market in 2027, as long as regulators don’t object.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Roberts saw no convincing reason why the principle should disappear when the object being viewed is a historic building rather than an animal species, river, or forest.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

He handed Zheng the object he’d been working on the whole time the boy had been staying with them.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

As some machines demonstrated their ability to clean or recycle objects, others showed they could deliver parcels during a live demonstration in Brussels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Beer cans, bottles and other trash have blown from their property into his yard, he claimed, posing an aspiration risk because ostriches are attracted to shiny objects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Merlin, meanwhile, is using AI-powered cameras to detect and classify objects.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Senegal Prosperity, run by South Korea’s Sinokor, was hit by three objects while also sailing east of Oman, Marisks said, adding that both vessels were attempting to exit the Persian Gulf.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The room felt like a museum of random ordinary objects; the walls held glass cases boasting keys, pendulums, coins, oven mitts, ropes, even teakettles, and more.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

But the presence of Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov prompted protests from European officials, who objected to appearing in a traditional "family photo" with him.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Public opinion on the reservoir has been split - some have objected to using the site for water, fearing high environmental costs from the destruction of ancient woodlands.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Some families who objected to those policies helped fuel explicitly Christian scouting alternatives.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

The state’s powerful agricultural industry objected to the proposed ban.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

The National objected to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and favored educated female suffrage; the American supported female suffrage and did not oppose voting rights for any African Americans.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

While objecting to the subpoenas in court, the company simultaneously convinced the DOJ to drop the case, he said.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Woods' lawyers can fight against the subpoena or legal order regarding prescription records by objecting to it within 10 days.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Some local officials and activists have begun to push back on data-center plans, objecting to the threat of utility cost increases and job losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax, objecting to slavery and the Mexican War.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

It was hard to imagine anyone objecting to these kindly people.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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