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license

[lahy-suhns] / ˈlaɪ səns /




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His base case remains that Simba will keep its license but pay some kind of penalty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Verify licenses on the California Contractors State License Board website and make sure the license holder’s name matches the company’s listed owner or leader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Once you have recommendations, hire a qualified contractor with a current state license and insurance and an arborist certified by the International Society of Arboriculture on staff, she advised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But Centrus has an early-mover advantage: It is one of only two companies—alongside Urenco—that has an NRC license to produce low-enriched uranium and the only NRC-licensed entity for the highly enriched kind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Employers in a growing number of professions are barred by state licensing agencies from hiring people with a wide range of criminal convictions, even convictions unrelated to the job or license sought.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

It said it had coordinated with Chinese authorities “to process part of the licenses confidentially,” Haokun wrote in a letter viewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Verify licenses on the California Contractors State License Board website and make sure the license holder’s name matches the company’s listed owner or leader.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Nvidia, however, has said Chinese restrictions have prevented it from selling all the chips covered by those licenses.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

In the case of the king, he makes a particular kind of choice of expert, in that he licenses people to practice—above all, in Hobbes’s world, he licenses the clergy to preach.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Heller said it’s best for homeowners to consult a licensed roofer for safety reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Bundibugyo, however, occurs much less often, and no licensed vaccine or therapeutic has been developed specifically to target it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

One proposal to promote evaluator independence would be for regulators to assign auditors from a licensed pool instead of having the labs hire their own auditors directly.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

For this new material, Palao, along with Talmy Enterprises Incorporated, licensed the album to Warner, and it will be released by the company's subsidiary, Parlophone.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“We—I—we understood that the program was licensed by...It was an Oblation Board matter, but we were told it had the approval of the Consistorial Court of Discipline. We would never have taken part otherwise. Never!”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Just days after a capital-markets day left investors wondering what’s next for Novo Nordisk, the Danish drug giant struck a licensing deal worth over $1 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Pfizer has committed more upfront cash to Chinese licensing deals than any other drugmaker since 2022—$2.15 billion across five deals, according to Norstella.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Universal settled with Udio in October and became its partner, and Warner settled with both Udio and Suno in November, signing licensing deals with each.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Maybe it will take a massive, Chernobyl-scale disaster to get governments to act," Russell said, urging them to establish a licensing regime for AI, as exists with aviation, medicine or water supply.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

A few weeks after Wayne Washington interviewed me, he called Gay to verify some facts and told her that he had copied the Mosses’ foster care licensing file.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter




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