carte

Example Sentences

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“In other words, a kind of an à la carte world, where allies are cherry-picked. We must remain alert.”

From Seattle Times

Referees weren’t villains, but co-conspirators, given carte blanche by Sorenson to adjust the rules on the fly, especially if it resulted in more penalty shots.

From Seattle Times

The judges wrote that they couldn’t endorse Trump’s “apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes counted.”

From Seattle Times

It refused to “sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.”

From Salon

One day, you might be able to pay for individual games à la carte, or some service might bundle all of sports together and somehow offer it for a lower price than a cable subscription.

From New York Times