loophole

Authorities wanted to close what some consider a legal loophole allowing cardrooms to offer blackjack and games in which players play against the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

In his first comments, Mohan said his "priority was to identify and close any loophole so such incidents are never repeated".

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The Meat Wall acts as a loophole because it traps the goalkeeper on his line, blocking him from even attempting a catch, which lowers the likelihood of an infringement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Anthropic described the loophole discovered by this third party -- identified by several media outlets as Amazon -- as "narrow" and said the software vulnerabilities it exposed were "minor."

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

His freedom wouldn't be based on some tricky legal loophole or the exploitation of a technicality.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The section’s vague language and many loopholes could have a chilling effect on any research that studies the effects of a disease, policy or public health intervention on any specific group of people, Rafla-Yuan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

May's sanctions on brokers are the toughest measures taken by officials in years to plug loopholes that people long used to bypass capital controls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

"Anthropic to close China loopholes" reads the Financial Times, which says that Chinese companies had been accessing Anthropic's AI tools with workarounds such as cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Amodei rejected the Defense Department’s latest proposal, which he said added loopholes, and conceded there isn’t a path forward to working together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He’d watched the way she assessed the terms of their deal, probably finding a dozen loopholes to get herself out of it if things went wrong.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Any legislation however altruistic is loopholed to death.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

Swaney loopholed her way into a spot in the skiing halfpipe for Hungary and then cautiously coasted down the course.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2018

The heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The small tanks streamed last week up the mountain road while Pathans in their little loopholed houses peered out goggle-eyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our rifle fire, however, seemed totally unable to check the Tibetan warriors in the loopholed windows.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund

Author Stern began explaining the not-so-fine art of legal tax loopholing nine years ago in The Great Treasury Raid.

From Time Magazine Archive

These he made use of as forts, throwing into them little garrisons, and loopholing the walls.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

The enemy’s position was naturally strong, and was rendered more so by blockhouses, a stone fort and entrenchments cut in solid rock, and the loopholing of a solidly built stone church.

From The Boys of '98 by Otis, James

They went to work, however, with a will, and for more than two hours employed themselves in loopholing the walls and constructing barricades between the two houses.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.