grace period
Example Sentences
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Voters who want to vote by mail should not depend too much on the seven-day grace period, Alexander said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
He said experts had since said the transition from child to adult hospitals should be done more gradually with a bigger grace period, rather than an immediate move upon turning 18.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Ahn called the June inflation data a “one month grace period, not a get out of a jail card.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
In 2023 it stretched the grace period to two years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The headmaster read through Caitlin's letter before agreeing to a month-long grace period: Things had gotten so bad that even the schools had to be lenient.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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