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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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Yet repeal is a possibility in some states.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

There have been hunger strikes demanding farmers' rights, affirmative action, environmental protections, anti-corruption laws and the repeal of controversial security legislation.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Apple has been one of the law's fiercest critics, calling on the EU to repeal the DMA last year.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

When the board voted 7-2 to repeal the policy with the opt-out language, the audience erupted.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

The protesters had issued an ultimatum, demanding that the government repeal the Black Act.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

In agreeing to hear the pair of cases, the justices did not disturb the lower court rulings that blocked the repeals for now.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

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

A later law, of 1904, repeals the deposit requirement.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

DST, which also helped conserve fuel during the first world war, was unpopular with farmers and was repealed after the war.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

It repealed the zero-tolerance policy, going so far as to invite revoked dealers to reapply for new licenses.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

“That law was repealed as a failed policy,” said Shayla Myers, an attorney for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles who has represented homeless litigants in lawsuits challenging city homeless policies.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Princeton implemented a cap on A’s in 2004, but repealed the policy in 2014 after reporting it added a “large element of stress to students’ lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

In 1933, by ratification of all the states, the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

France is Thursday expected to move towards repealing outdated legislation that defines people enslaved in its colonies as "moveable goods", in a symbolic move as the country grapples with its colonial legacy.

From Barron's May 28, 2026

The SEC is also repealing a post-dot-com-bubble rule that requires frequent stock traders to prepare significant cash reserves so as to prevent major losses.

From Slate May 15, 2026

But the commission should consider repealing the rule outright.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government’s stated intention of repealing die mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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