prerogative
Example Sentences
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Legislators are also not, for now, challenging Disney’s even more super-secret authority to indefinitely detain “any individual deemed to be in violation … of Mouse Prerogative 7.0 Delta.”
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2022
The Royal Prerogative of Mercy can be used to grant a pardon to somebody or to reduce their sentence.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2021
The Northern Ireland Office said the Royal Prerogative of Mercy has been used in the past on compassionate grounds or in exchange for co-operation with the authorities to help bring others to justice.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2021
In 1988, Bobby Brown bragged that "no one can tell me what to do" in his hit song about his awesomeness, "My Prerogative."
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2011
His will, dated at Dover, 3rd September, 1640, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and is printed in the Howard Anecdotes.
Vocabulary lists containing prerogative
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Grade 11, List 1
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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