deadline
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Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, meanwhile, was on a tight deadline to push the 2024 budget through the assembly by the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Any tickets from today's sale that are not paid for in full by the early April 2027 deadline will be put back into an official resale pool, festival organisers said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The public comment deadline for individuals closed Sept. 25.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Zaidi, a 41-year-old businessman, sat beside Trump during the visit and announced a deadline, also set for Wednesday, for Iranian-backed militias to hand over their weapons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The deadline to register for the dance class had passed.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
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Back then, after talking to the House member who wrote the disaster-tax-deadline law, I wrote a piece about his argument that deadlines had been turned off indefinitely and the IRS’s quick rejection of that argument.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Procedures can be hurried to meet certain deadlines, like the end of a league season.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
In a draft rule, the EPA argued these standards were impossible to meet and the deadlines too tight.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
It has more rules, more recordkeeping and more deadlines.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
If it weren’t for my mom, he would have missed a bunch of deadlines and fallen behind in the whole process.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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