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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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“It’s well past time to review, revise and maybe even repeal it.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which held the FCC is required by federal law to repeal or modify regulations that are no longer in the public interest.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Morgan analyst Rajat Gupta noted, the decline is tied to several factors, including the repeal of federal EV tax credits and backlash tied to CEO Elon Musk’s stint in the U.S. federal government.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

By the time he was in Downing Street he had already promised to repeal the legacy legislation having been ambushed by a member of the audience during at an event in Queen's University, Belfast.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

The protesters had issued an ultimatum, demanding that the government repeal the Black Act.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2025

A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.

From Science Daily Dec. 20, 2025

When asked by Batch if someone wearing a mask for health purposes in public would be violating the law, a legislative staff member said it would, because the bill repeals the exemption.

From Seattle Times May 14, 2024

But even if repealed, the 1864 law would still go into effect for a period of time because repeals do not take effect until 90 days after the end of the legislative session.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2024

These acts are occasional repeals of that part of the constitution, which forbids the same persons to exercise legislative and judiciary powers, at the same time.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.

From Slate Aug. 3, 2026

The charter amendment ballot measure approved Tuesday would avoid that result and restore the inadvertently repealed funding.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Although Pope Benedict XVI repealed the excommunication in 2009 in an unsuccessful attempt to heal the rift, Pope Leo is also expected to exclude the new bishops from the Catholic Church.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, America was left not sobered, but hungover by its own contradictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

He had heard them toll for the dead, rejoice when some unpopular act had been repealed, and shudder with bronze rage at tyranny.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

By repealing Balogun's ban, it can only make life more difficult for them.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 2026

State lawmakers are also considering avenues to raise revenue, which include repealing a “water’s edge” tax break.

From Los Angeles Times May 3, 2026

But the commission should consider repealing the rule outright.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

It is as if anyone who proposed repealing a stupid law, like the one forbidding interracial marriage, must be a black-cloaked, bomb-clutching anarchist.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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