proviso
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Before that, a stipulation known as the Texas Proviso created a loophole that gave a pass to employers to hire noncitizens.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
Brown played football at Proviso East High School before his collegiate career at Notre Dame and professionally with the Patriots, Jaguars, Colts and Bills.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
The 37-year-old was a McDonald’s All-American and Illinois Mr. Basketball when he played for Proviso East near Chicago in Maywood.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2022
The Wilmot Proviso captured the “antislavery” sentiments during and after the Mexican War.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
The establishment of Territorial governments, without the Wilmot Proviso, for New Mexico and Utah, embracing all the territory recently acquired by the United States from Mexico, not contained in the boundaries of California.
From History of American Abolitionism by Fontaine, F. G. de
Vocabulary lists containing proviso
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Texas v. Johnson (1989)
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