provisos

Example Sentences

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Experts said such provisos still have the effect of muzzling a victim’s speech and hindering public accountability.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

Legislators have ways of reviving bills when they’re motivated to do so, and some proposals can find new life and a different form as provisos in the budget.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Two novel provisos, however, combine to make the rule nearly toothless.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2023

Since then, they have created clauses for providing cover, including provisos that ships need to stay inside the corridor when transiting or risk invalidating their policies.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2022

There was no use to appeal to delicacy; attenuating provisos would not help; small deceptions practised in the spirit of love would prove ineffectual.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson