stringent
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The long and in some ways arbitrary process of being granted citizenship—more than 10 years ago, before the advent of increasingly stringent rules—makes life hard for the couple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Their own reports repeatedly highlighted it. But they did not take any preventive steps, did not demand stringent checks and balances, nor were they prepared for a calamity they knew could occur," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
But those threats don’t justify stringent regulations that restrict access to the technology, both executives said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But in March, ICE and GEO Group established a new contract that says the opposite — that “applicable or more stringent state or local laws or regulations shall not apply.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Yet she decided that she would not permit this new and stringent law to interfere with her plan to keep guiding slaves out of Dorchester County.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Vocabulary lists containing stringent
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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