voluntary
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OPEC+ had kept production unchanged also for November, following the completion in September of the phased unwinding of 1.65 million barrels a day in voluntary production cuts agreed in 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Dozens of local water agencies have signed these so-called voluntary agreements and have begun investing in projects to restore wetlands and floodplains along rivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The councillors and voluntary organisations involved in patient transport have said that, even when a patient gets transport, bookings are frequently cancelled the day before the appointment.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security says he entered the country legally in 2022 but overstayed by more than four years, that he has no pending applications and that he accepted voluntary departure.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
So Gloria sends me to Karen at another number, another voluntary agency, where I am told I am in the wrong county.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
Usually these voluntaries were real milk-and-water affairs," he recalled, "but one day the organist did something really wild, which was thrilling.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
This decided on she slipped the bracelet into her pocket, and played her voluntaries with a light heart.
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Her organ voluntaries at the annual conventions evince a master's skill and delight all who listen.
From Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York by Frances W. Graham
With these voluntaries Alexius opened communications, and was by their aid enabled to get accurate information of all that went on among the Latins.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
This letter finished, he went out and posted it with all the others he had written, and then passed the evening in listening to the organist practising grave anthems and voluntaries in the Cathedral.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
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