license
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It "gave license to anyone, but especially women, to use fashion beyond adornment and much more intentionally and meaningfully: as a shield, a weapon or both," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Midlothian Republican filed bills that year and in 2025 to require a warrant before police could access license plate reader data.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Such poetic license offers little new insight into a topic that has already been picked over for two decades, but it might be forgiven were Hansen as easily dramatized as he is made fun of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
In 2019, Novartis exercised an option to license development and commercialization rights for the drug.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
By then she had her driver’s license and a car of her own, and so I was finally free.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
They also requested a temporary restraining order against the agency’s efforts to force an early review of its licenses.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
The trio of general licenses, issued by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, allow U.S. companies to sell and export minerals produced by Venezuelan state-owned mining companies Minerven and Carbozulia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The licenses also allow the provision of technology and other services to the mining sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“A lot of the licenses unlawfully issued come from California, New York, a lot from Illinois,” added Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
But they held on to those little yellow cards as though they meant something—laid them gently in the shoe box along with the rent receipts, marriage licenses, and expired factory identification badges.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
It caught the eye of Corxel Pharmaceuticals, the biotech firm that licensed VCT220, partly because the drug causes fewer side effects like nausea and vomiting than other GLP-1s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It is fully licensed by the Albanian health authorities – and so are all of its 15 resident dentists.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Novartis licensed pelacarsen from biotech Ionis Pharmaceuticals for $60 million upfront in 2023.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I saw it and was like, what is this wild thing? I want one,” said Katie Sobelman, a licensed esthetician who practices in Napa and Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
The fossils had been uncovered by archaeologists who were monitoring the Davinópolis construction project as part of environmental licensing requirements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
"All German exports of military technology and equipment to Israel -- as to any country -- are subject to strict licensing requirements which exceed international requirements," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
After that, I started browsing the library website differently: less like a catalog, more like a streaming service with unusually eccentric licensing agreements.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
If state licensing boards loosen the grip that ABA accreditation has enjoyed for decades, innovative and technologically driven market entrants will create modern curricula that better reflect what the practice of law entails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They were not any of our regular workers, so they must have been supervisors or licensing inspectors.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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