absolute
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While protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act limit how patient data is shared, those safeguards are not absolute when legal action is involved.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
New Jersey became the first state to insist on driver’s licenses, with the state’s motor-vehicle commissioner in 1924 declaring: “It is an absolute necessity to do this in order to conserve human life.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
The decision remains at the absolute discretion of the referee, who will consider all circumstances before issuing a red card.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
San Francisco-based OpenAI has countered in court filings that its break-up with Musk was due to the Tesla tycoon's quest for absolute control rather than its nonprofit status.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Thus knowledge, in so far as we have it, is not absolute but progressive, not definitive but provisional.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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