up to code
Example Sentences
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After decades with long-term tenants, the brothers calculated that getting the apartments back up to code would cost thousands of dollars that couldn’t be recouped at the artificially low rent cap.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Some fear the blaze structurally weakened the site or that any repairs carried out were insufficient or not up to code.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025
“City and county employees are still hard at work in their office spaces but they’re tired, old, sometimes decrepit and oftentimes no longer up to code in terms of earthquake” safety requirements.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
Getting an antique home up to code and running new electrical or plumbing can be an issue.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
As Shady handed him a glass of water, the man looked at it as if he might check to see if the water was up to code.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
