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moratorium

[mawr-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-, mor-] / ˌmɔr əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌmɒr- /


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Known as the Lugg Moratorium, developers can buy credits to offset the phosphate and nitrate added by building, and the money is used to fund wetlands.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

The most well-known of these three measures is presumably the Soy Moratorium.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024

He was one of four national co-chairs of the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, a series of major protests in the fall of 1969.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024

At 22, her arrival at Otis coincided with the 1970 Chicano Moratorium, the huge antiwar demonstration in East L.A. that forged a broad-based coalition of Mexican American groups in opposition to the Vietnam conflict.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Nixon was determined to hide how much the successful Moratorium bothered him.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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