provision
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Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.
From Slate β Aug. 20, 2026
One provision of the bill removes a requirement that manufactured homes come with the permanent steel frame used for transporting the houses.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 19, 2026
The donations included the provision of office space, IT equipment, staffing, polling, travel, social media support and message testing.
From BBC β Aug. 18, 2026
The law carries a provision to require plaintiffs to post a bond to cover the potential financial harms of halting a transaction.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 17, 2026
They ate breakfast with the giant: he pulled whole cows and sheep from his provision bag and crunched them down; the three companions ate more sparingly.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Under this bill as it stands, the president may waive almost any of its provisions.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 21, 2026
The screen looked almost like a cheerful kitchen-table flat-lay: products arranged over a wood-grain background, hovering around a GoPuff bag as though someone had just come home and emptied the evening’s provisions onto the table.
From Salon β Aug. 20, 2026
Because of confidentiality provisions and the private nature of these disputes, there is plenty we don’t know about how common fights like this one are—or how they’re resolved.
From Slate β Aug. 20, 2026
They say the bill’s provisions should prevent such earnings.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 19, 2026
The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough for a company of soldiers.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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U.S. factories also kept allied Soviet forces provisioned.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 29, 2026
He provisioned his ship and gave to the Coast Miwoks who greeted him pieces of blue-and- white Chinese porcelain that he had evidently “liberated” from the Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 1, 2025
UT itself hosts an annual Free Speech Week in which outside influence is encouraged on campus—and is specifically outlined as protected, provisioned for, and celebrated.
From Slate β Apr. 27, 2024
“This campaign was run by geographically dispersed operators across China who appeared to be centrally provisioned with internet access and content,” Meta said in the report published Tuesday.
From Washington Times β Aug. 30, 2023
"Who provisioned the island and made all the necessary arrangements?"
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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"Time series analysis highlights significant seasonal mortality patterns, underscoring the need for targeted interventions during high-risk periods like peak summer months; such as strategic water provisioning, supplemental feeding, and enhanced disease monitoring," it said.
From BBC β Jul. 22, 2026
It is accounting policy to depreciate infrastructure and recognize other operating costs related to scaling new clusters when it starts provisioning the equipment, incurring expenses before the assets are handed over to a customer.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 21, 2026
Documents published by the US Navy this month show advanced planning for an even larger Australian stockpile, with $30 million allocated to build warehouses and offices in southeastern Victoria state for "critical forward provisioning".
From Barron's β Jun. 16, 2026
"Organisations will need to prepare for changes to wage structures, HR systems, social security provisioning and compliance governance," according to staffing agency BDO India.
From BBC β Nov. 27, 2025
The Adjutant commanded those of us who labored provisioning to pull back to Cambridge.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Vocabulary lists containing provision
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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