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
“In order to promote the swift and deliberate development of affordable housing in the City of San Diego, an urgency clause is needed for this measure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The foreign emoluments clause prevents the president and other federal officers from accepting “Any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state.”
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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West’s story, however, has gained momentum not because of the messiness surrounding surrogacy agreements and termination clauses.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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
"Current clauses may refer to 'severe' or 'extreme' weather, but the definitions for these can vary and currently no providers go as far as to specify criteria such as maximum temperatures."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Let’s have no clauses at all beyond the basic rules of interference and see what happens,” Hector says.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Case Closed: Clud, Clus
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