not legal
Example Sentences
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Electric motorcycles are primarily designed for off-road riding and are not legal to use on California roadways.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026
“The right to assistance of counsel and the correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help are not legal formalisms,” the court added.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
"What we're seeing now is voluntary compliance driven by commercial incentive structures, not legal mandates," he told BBC Verify.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
This rule to keep a company from adding a lot of money to the final bill is designed to prevent fraud, so what your moving company pulled was probably not legal.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026
It is not legal to hunt chimpanzees; they are endangered.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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