pretermit

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However, most states have “omitted spouse” or “pretermitted spouse” statutes to protect the spouse of a person who did not update their will after marrying.

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Still the Inquisition did not entirely pretermit its labors.

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I must, therefore, reluctantly pretermit all such matter—reserving for some other occasion the gratification of the public curiosity therein.

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Members with a taste for writing, having some carefully thought out message to deliver on an intricate topic of foreign or domestic policy are increasingly inclined entirely to pretermit the parliamentary stage of their exposition.

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This you must be pleased to let me have again, for I borrow it: for the other, I will pretermit no time to write it; though in good faith, I have half forgot it.

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