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amnesty

[am-nuh-stee] / ˈæm nə sti /
NOUN
pardon, often by government
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Under pressure from the US, Rodriguez enacted an amnesty law in February, though the rate of releases has been slow.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The TRC, chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was generally praised for bringing together victims and perpetrators who were granted amnesty as long as they, among other conditions, fully disclosed what they had done.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Her Mexican mother was naturalized thanks to the 1986 amnesty, but her first husband struggled for years to attain legal status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The legislation, part of efforts to end decades of deadly fighting, would allow some PKK members to return to civilian life under certain conditions but falls short of offering a general amnesty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

He said he put it in his father’s name because the older man had become a legal resident after the 1986 amnesty.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

"Of course we would consider the likes of knife amnesties if that is something the police and other partners feel is helpful," he told the programme.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The junta frequently grants prison amnesties on public holidays, and Monday's raft of notices also announced the release of more than 2,800 other prisoners and 10 jailed foreign nationals -- without detailing their offences.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

Argentina has announced dozens of tax amnesties over the years, only for the rules to be reversed by subsequent governments, which sometimes chase down Argentines for the assets and cash they just declared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Additionally, government amnesties for shoddy construction allowed transgressors to pay fines rather than tear down or fix dangerous buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

The Emperor has the right of pardoning, even in correctional cases, and of granting amnesties.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

Running as an outsider, Chavez, amnestied from prison only four years earlier, won the presidency, though with a total turnout of just 36%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Dozens of those arrested in the crackdown have recently been amnestied or freed from pre-trial detention, though rights groups say thousands remain jailed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022

When she and Tolokonnikova are amnestied by Putin, Alyokhina thinks, “Everyone needed this amnesty but me.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

There had been a parallel thaw within the Soviet Union, where Stalin’s successors had amnestied hundreds of thousands of political prisoners and Khrushchev had denounced Stalin’s crimes.

From Time ● Oct. 16, 2015

"His Excellency here has been so very recently amnestied by the Prince, that he imagines he is still at war with us."

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai

Kobe Bryant will most likely return when he is healthy, unless one believes that this Lakers organization would risk the backlash involved in amnestying him, but nobody knows when that will be.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013


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