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Experts said voluntary cancellations are sometimes an indication that companies believe it will be too costly, or too potentially damaging, to pursue new rigorous rounds of studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Education minister Bridget Phillipson told broadcasters after the plan was unveiled that the voluntary element of the curfews could be changed if it was found too many teenagers were switching off the default settings.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Moreover, management said the company issued a voluntary recall involving some jalapenos a day earlier, as health authorities try to halt a more recent salmonella outbreak across multiple states.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Taylor Farms itself announced a voluntary recall of lettuce sourced from central Mexico.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

The men were the voluntary guards of their village and had been asked by their chief to bring us back.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

Certain music, indeed, especially voluntaries by a good player, at twilight—or idle rambles alone by the shore, or over prairie or on mountain road, for that matter—favor the right mood.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"The organist played as opening voluntaries the 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' Barnaby's 'Bridal March' from 'Lohengrin,' and Barnaby's 'Bridal March.'"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman

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

The number of mariners in the saide fleete were above 8000, of slaves 2088, of souldiers 20,000—besides noblemen and gentlemen voluntaries; of great cast pieces, 2600.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd