objection
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On Monday the House voted, without a single objection, to permanently stop making the penny.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The obvious objection is that cloud revenue is accelerating, rather than shrinking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The council ultimately adopted a budget over the mayor’s objection, including several revenue raisers he opposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
She added that conscientious objection in Wales – where staff can refuse to take part in care on moral or religious grounds – was "widespread" and making a "bad situation" with provision worse.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“And what objection could any reasonable person make to brown worsted?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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“It was both an inspired idea and a safe move,” he concludes, because Anderson was widely respected and thus less apt to provoke objections among the Met’s most hidebound subscribers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A Serbian government minister had initially said that Mladić would be given a state funeral but those plans were changed after objections from some European leaders.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
While that has proved controversial in some quarters, there were few objections about the sisters being invited to play once again at Flushing Meadows.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Unger said that he tried to raise his objections to the deal at board meetings, but that his fellow directors refused to discuss them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Then she repeated every one of Maddie’s own objections.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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