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waive

[weyv] / weɪv /


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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

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

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

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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