clause
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The Old Trafford club have paid an initial £65m, plus a potential £5m in add-ons, for the 22-year-old, while Brighton have negotiated a sell-on clause.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Of such solid stuff was the pound sterling made that nobody seems to have asked for an inflation-escalator clause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But he said if the owners sincerely believed that, they were perfectly free to negotiate with the players to get the reserve clause back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
When you start googling about the emoluments clause, the first thing that keeps coming up is “What ever happened to the emoluments clause,” as though it was excised from the Constitution.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Impossible because only one coven of the eight who’d invoked the clause in the history of the Twelve Towns had solved it.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Verstappen was previously contracted to the end of 2028, but there were clauses in his contract that would have allowed him to leave at the end of the current Formula One season had he wanted.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
They really are totally uncontroversial, and both clauses were seen as, like, these original anti-corruption, anti-grifting prohibitions, and were largely just observed.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Additionally, many of these contracts contain conditional requirements or cancellation clauses in case build-outs stall.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Some sellers reported having to sign clauses waiving their right to compensation in the event of a drone strike on warehouse facilities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
But otherwise the subjunctive is found only in subordinate clauses, generally with mandative verbs and adjectives, which indicate that something is demanded or required: I insist that she be kept in the loop.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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