valid
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For a disclaimer to be valid, the person disclaiming an asset must not have benefited from it, say, by spending the dividends from a stock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
In that sense, it is a valid input into the ultimate outcome that one should expect, depending upon the circumstances.
From Barron's • Mar. 28, 2026
Mid and East Antrim Council said that "any property being sold or rented must have a valid Energy Performance Certificate, which reflects insulation and energy efficiency".
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
But her lawyer, Stacy Tolchin, said the record showed that the order lacked supervisory approval and was never finalized, so there was no valid removal order to reinstate.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
They used equations that physicists thought were valid, manipulated them in an accepted way, and came out with an answer that didn’t reflect the way the world works.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.