reinstate
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In November 2023, when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired, hundreds of employees signed a public letter pressuring the board of directors to reinstate him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
During Joe Biden's term as US president, he made some attempts to reinstate the Obama-era deal, but this did not happen.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Murrill has been pushing the court since September 2024 to reject his compensation claim and also to reinstate a manslaughter charge against him.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Officials have since launched Section 301 investigations, including on forced labor, to reinstate duties.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
“It appears I shall have to reinstate Chiron as activities director. I suppose I do miss the old horse’s pinochle games.”
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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The NCAA, meanwhile, is hoping an appeals court reinstates Sorsby’s ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Even if the president reinstates most levies, the Treasury might have to refund what it has already collected.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
That language clearly reinstates any federal employee who was either told they’d be laid off during the shutdown or actually laid off.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025
The Heisman Trust reinstates the trophy to Reggie Bush and USC, three years after the era of forbidding college athletes from receiving compensation ended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
He will explain that he now reinstates thee as Prioress of the Order.
From The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay
They grew suspicious about who was loyal to whom, even after Altman was reinstated as CEO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Secondly, they requested that the weekly visits by Khan's family reinstated by the court "be honoured without interruption or administrative delay".
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
The Cal State faculty union ruled earlier this summer that she must be reinstated as a tenured professor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Todd Blanche is launching a new process that allows individuals who lost their gun rights because of felony convictions to apply to have them reinstated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecures but which sounded important.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Once the tax is eliminated, the constitution would prohibit reinstating it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Speaking during a public comment period Tuesday, Umesh Vazirani, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, said “the academic case for reinstating the SAT is, in my view, overwhelming.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
ALAV's Loaiza is confident that reinstating connectivity will encourage other US companies to relaunch strategic routes -- particularly from Houston, which is vital for the oil industry.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Late on Wednesday, a handful of the students got a reprieve, with the SLC backing down and reinstating their right to receive payments.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
But his contrition did not last long, for the next day he informed us he was reinstating all the charges against us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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