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reprieve

[ri-preev] / rɪˈpriv /




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William Cobb and Todd Weaver, Freeport’s vice president and senior counsel, respectively, emailed the EPA in March 2025 to request a reprieve from the Clean Air Act.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

A military court on Thursday sentenced Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu to death with a two-year reprieve.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Even some of those struggling markets, however, including energy importers like India, could see a reprieve, and Korea and Taiwan could get a boost with a peaceful resolution in Iran.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

After a brief reprieve following the end of Coachella, we find ourselves in the desert again for Stagecoach — hot, dusty and eager to be amused.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026

Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer’s peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire’s response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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