imposition

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“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

In the nine months following the April 2025 imposition of reciprocal tariffs, Chinese exports to the United States declined by an estimated $109 billion against the 2022-24 baseline.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Since the imposition of the blockade, at least one ship, a bulk carrier, left an Iranian port and exited the region, according to publicly available shipping data.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

But Iranian officials and state media said that conditions remained on passage through the waterway, including the imposition of tolls and coordination with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor