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abatement

[uh-bayt-muhnt] / əˈbeɪt mənt /


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Lauren Truslow is chief executive of 3D Enviro, a Virginia company that does hazardous materials abatement with a handful of workers affected by the TPS expiration for El Salvador.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Lauren Truslow, CEO of 3D Enviro, a Virginia company that does identification and abatement of hazardous materials, said the lack of a decision on TPS has been stressful and costly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

The total amount Meta has now been ordered to pay in a landmark New Mexico child-safety verdict, combining $375 million in civil penalties with a new $567 million abatement fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The mosquito abatement district model has its roots in the early 20th century, and Utah was the third state to pass legislation authorizing the agencies.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The three women sat talking about various miseries they had had, their cure or abatement, what had helped.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

On Wednesday, Nevada’s Democratic candidate for governor, Aaron Ford, pledged to end tax abatements for new data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In the 2025 fiscal year, the IRS granted first-time penalty abatements to nearly 220,000 taxpayers, Collins said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Water Street in lower Manhattan has been a popular area for the makeovers, earning it the nickname "Conversion Alley," with buildings offering a mix of luxury and affordably-priced apartments to qualify for municipal abatements.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

What Chicago offered, however, were tax abatements and other benefits worth $60 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

The privileges granted to the barons were either abatements in the rigor of the feudal law or determinations in points which had been left by that law or had become, by practice, arbitrary and ambiguous.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne




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