discretion

Example Sentences

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However, if the original house was owned by the trust, the sale proceeds would legally need to go back into the trust unless the trust document gives the trustee discretion to reinvest them elsewhere.

From MarketWatch

Like Sandy June’s location, Fireball news was all word of mouth, divulged with the greatest of discretion.

From Literature

Everyone seemed to like them, even those who occasionally ate them, and rock bellies collected relationships in the same way squirrels gathered nuts—that is to say, with very little discretion.

From Literature

Instead, guidelines on the way officers should exercise discretion have changed.

From Salon

She wrote a letter to Kennedy in November urging the FDA to use enforcement discretion for certain peptides that she said were “critical to processes” such as metabolism, immune response and tissue repair.

From The Wall Street Journal