annul
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Sanchez has alleged irregularities in the count, but election authorities have already thrown out his request to annul the results.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
A legal bid by some residents to annul all transactions since Ravi's arrival in 2021 was rejected by the Madras High Court last year, but several other cases are ongoing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Klein & Wilson, a law firm based in Newport Beach, Calif., outlines the reasons you can revoke or annul a contract.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Andros immediately sought to annul the move on grounds that only he had the authority to name a thanksgiving day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
No, I think, but even if it were, it turned out to be Mitt, some wondrous thing, who will forever annul any of our regret.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Open the history annuls and you'll find celebrities and WAGs - the wives and girlfriends of drivers - visible in the paddock for decades.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
"The General Court annuls the decision of the Commission to approve the recapitalisation of Lufthansa by Germany, amounting to 6 billion euros, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic," the Luxembourg-based tribunal said.
From Reuters ● May 10, 2023
Sept. 7: Mexico’s Supreme Court unanimously annuls portions of a law in Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
Maldives court annuls former leader's conviction: Maldives's top court has annulled former president Mohamed Nasheed's conviction on terrorism charges.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2018
The duty of commercial intercourse between nations is laid down in terms sufficiently positive by Vattel, but he afterwards qualifies it by a restriction, which, unless itself restricted, annuls it altogether.
From Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Quincy, Josiah
Greenspan’s marriage was annulled amicably after a year, but his friendship with Rand lasted until her death in 1982.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Tuesday's vote came after the lower house last week backed repealing outdated slavery legislation that was never annulled despite the practice being abolished in 1848.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Their marriage was annulled the following November, months before “Control” was released.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
Last month, Panama's Supreme Court annulled the contracts which allowed CK Hutchison to operate the container ports, saying they were "unconstitutional".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
He annulled the registrations with a stroke of the pen.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Dieudonne Boutrin, an activist from the overseas territory of Martinique who is descended from enslaved people, said annulling the Black Code should have been done ages ago.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Lore Segal was 10 years old in 1938 when Nazi Germany annexed Austria and began the process of annulling the citizenships and confiscating the properties of Jewish families such as her own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
But on Saturday, just hours after Ali Bongo was announced as the winner of a disputed presidential election, the military announced it was annulling the results and taking over.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2023
To obtain immunity, he would need to show that his conduct served some actual U.S. government purpose that the Supremacy Clause would forbid the state from annulling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Surely, there will be repercussions, but will they go so far as Coin annulling our agreement for the victors’ immunity?
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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