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repeal

[ri-peel] / rɪˈpil /




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The repeal will primarily affect California and nine other Western states, which are home to more than 95% of inventoried roadless areas, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

In the immediate aftermath of the repeal of the proposed legislation, this academic postmortem, published in the monthly peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs, speculated that the MCCA’s failure was, indeed, partly due to financial reasons.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Voters have launched a ballot campaign to repeal the tax and bar the state and localities from enacting income taxes in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 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

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

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

The new policy repeals the previous code, which banned camping only at parks and the beach.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2025

Suppose we refuse to send it unless Parliament repeals the Act.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 8, May 1878, No. 7. An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

Arkansas, Montana and South Carolina voluntarily repealed racial quotas for public bodies after lawsuits based on the Equal Protection Clause.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Because the GPO has been repealed, her teacher’s pension will no longer reduce or eliminate her spousal benefit.

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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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

As a result, the passage of Measure G repealed Measure J.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

He had heard them toll for the dead, rejoice when some unpopular act had been repealed, and shudder with bronze rage at tyranny.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

“Changing that takes a lot more than repealing a law,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

But it soon became clear that repealing the previous legislation was one thing; how to replace it quite another.

From BBC Jul. 20, 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

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

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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