waive
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The agent offered to waive it for a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Victims of sexual offences receive lifelong legal anonymity unless they waive their right to it.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The team must trade or waive a player before opening day to reach the roster maximum of 15.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The newer version does, however, give the White House more authority to waive the oil-and-gas importer penalties if it sees fit.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026
“There was a question just now, Mr. Jaggers, which you desired me to waive for a moment. I hope I am doing nothing wrong in asking it again?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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No lawyer in America thinks drafting a confidential memo in Google Docs waives the privilege over its contents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
So she sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which waives the U.S. government’s immunity from certain lawsuits.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Frequent users can save $5 per order on average by signing up for the app’s subscription service, DashPass, which costs $9.99 per month or $96 per year and waives fees on certain orders, DoorDash said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
The federal program also waives fees and requirements for “legitimate” recycling of certain hazardous wastes, such as scrap metal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
Some Argie diplomat in New York, still harping on about the Belgrano being outside the zone, said Britain no longer rules the waves, it just waives the rules.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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But luckily for the Simmons family, the fine has been waived.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
For instance, someone who purchased a $1,400 laptop in Tennessee during tax-free weekend would save $98 on the waived 7% state sales tax plus $21 to $38 on local taxes, depending on the county.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Sania Feagin, a 2025 first-round draft pick, was waived and signed with Portland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Unpaid interest is waived if monthly minimum payments aren’t high enough to cover it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Or should the grade for class participation be waived because the absence was a valid one?
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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Brittan, from Devon, who spoke to the BBC after waiving her automatic lifelong right to anonymity, described the Met as "shambolic, incompetent and complicit".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Caplin said the league is not interested in waiving blackout rules on a team-by-team basis, even for those teams whose rights no longer are held by a cable or satellite entity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
The American Bar Association concluded in 2017 that lawyers may use cloud computing without waiving privilege, provided they take reasonable security precautions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
And why might waiving it help ease East Coast gas ‘supply crunch’?
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
The judge warned Joe repeatedly that a guilty plea meant waiving his right to a trial, his right to testify, and his right to appeal her ruling.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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