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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in line to become speaker should Democrats win control of the chamber, has said his party would repeal tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

And in Washington state, voters will consider whether to repeal a newly enacted 9.9% tax on households that earn over $1 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The administration couldn’t repeal healthcare translation laws singlehandedly, Lynette Martins, a professor of health law at DePaul University, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Since the law’s voter-approved repeal, students receiving bilingual instruction have demonstrated higher academic achievement across subjects and higher rates of English proficiency compared with students who received instruction in English only, Garcia Bedolla said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

As the news of the repeal was broadcast over the radio, stores like New York’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s immediately opened their liquor departments.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Last week, the government introduced a new law that repeals and rebrands the scheme.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025

A major wave of repeals took place in 1985, when Minnesota, South Carolina, and Texas eliminated their blue laws.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025

And these repeals would bar the targeted agency from ever taking a “substantially” similar action again.

From Slate ● May 14, 2025

This year’s bill repeals what’s left of it.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

It repeals, in express terms, an important part of the constitution itself, and of laws passed to give it effect, which have never been alleged to be unconstitutional.

From The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met by A. D. Steight

Congress repealed that law in 1802, before a vacancy arose, and reset the number of justices to six.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

“The ‘Full Fare Rule’ is a vital underpinning of modern flight shopping and must not be repealed or watered down in any way,” wrote Jason Rabinowitz on July 8.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

This law repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which previously reduced Social Security payments for many public-sector retirees like your wife.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

On March 2nd, the Senate passed the Kansas-Ne- braska Bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise restriction and divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories: Kansas and Nebraska.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Forest Service, said this week that repealing the rule would give local agencies more authority over land management issues and help reduce barriers to wildfire risk reduction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

By repealing Balogun's ban, it can only make life more difficult for them.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

However, repealing the earnings test would likely lead to more people claiming Social Security early, hastening the system’s impending insolvency.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

It is as if anyone who proposed repealing a stupid law, like the one forbidding interracial marriage, must be a black-cloaked, bomb-clutching anarchist.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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