pursuant
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Groupe Bruxelles Lambert did so through the sale of six million Concentrix shares on April 29 in a block trade pursuant to Rule 144 at a price of $22.25 per share.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
"The referee in consultation with the Grand Slam supervisor may declare a default for either a single violation of this code or pursuant to the point penalty schedule."
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
Humphrey, stands for the idea that if “a prisoner seeks ‘damages for confinement imposed pursuant to legal process,’ a federal-court judgment would be incompatible with an undisturbed state-court conviction.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
In a February report pursuant to that law, the California Geologic Energy Management Division determined there were 1,566 wells, of which only 419 were still in production, 85% of them low-performing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025
Mrs. Colbey rejected the State's offer of a plea agreement, pursuant to which she would have gone to prison for eighteen years, because she was adamant that she had done nothing wrong.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing pursuant
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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