stringent
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A previous contract for the facility stated that services must comply with “federal, state and local laws and standards. Should a conflict exist between any of these standards, the most stringent shall apply.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
A spokesperson for Ambassador said it was following "stringent search and rescue protocols" and was working with the coastguard and police.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The country’s regulators have imposed increasingly stringent restrictions on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds tracking SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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So many states had repealed so many firearm regulations that the District of Columbia’s stringent handgun ban looked like a true outlier.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
Somewhere behind the locked door in my mind, I heard the echo of Erna Kleist’s stringent voice: Not that one.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary lists containing stringent
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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Vocabulary from the Third and Final Presidential Debate, October 19, 2016
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