reprieve
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William Cobb and Todd Weaver, Freeport’s vice president and senior counsel, respectively, emailed the EPA in March 2025 to request a reprieve from the Clean Air Act.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
Even some of those struggling markets, however, including energy importers like India, could see a reprieve, and Korea and Taiwan could get a boost with a peaceful resolution in Iran.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
After a brief reprieve following the end of Coachella, we find ourselves in the desert again for Stagecoach — hot, dusty and eager to be amused.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2026
Around 22,000 university students who were told they would have to urgently repay maintenance loans and childcare grants that were given to them in error have been given a reprieve.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Their brief reprieve was over, however; people were coming at them from all directions.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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