loophole
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Shein was valued at $100 billion in a 2022 funding round but has been hit hard by the loss of a U.S. loophole that had let it ship low-cost products tariff-free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Compounding the anonymity, these shell companies often benefit from an enormous loophole: They rarely pay federal taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Rather than uncovering a loophole, they appear to have landed themselves squarely in legal jeopardy.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
It also eliminated an earlier loophole that allowed stonecutting manufacturers to dodge safety requirements by claiming that protective steps weren’t feasible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Now they were trying to seize control of GSS by exploiting a loophole in Halliday’s will.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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“There may be loopholes that folks find in this one, and they have to follow up and close those loopholes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Our retirement savings system is built on incentives to help workers achieve financial security after a lifetime of work — not on loopholes for the wealthiest to exploit,” Neal said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
The loopholes have been glaring at the Ram temple, with the accused reportedly taking advantage of weak counting processes and surveillance lapses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Amodei rejected the Defense Department’s latest proposal, which he said added loopholes, and conceded there isn’t a path forward to working together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“There’s too many loopholes in here,” he declared, twice.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Any legislation however altruistic is loopholed to death.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
Swaney loopholed her way into a spot in the skiing halfpipe for Hungary and then cautiously coasted down the course.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2018
The small tanks streamed last week up the mountain road while Pathans in their little loopholed houses peered out goggle-eyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Masonry blockhouses, loopholed for musketry, are provided as keeps of the re-entering and salient places of arms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Author Stern began explaining the not-so-fine art of legal tax loopholing nine years ago in The Great Treasury Raid.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They went to work, however, with a will, and for more than two hours employed themselves in loopholing the walls and constructing barricades between the two houses.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by H.C. Adams
These he made use of as forts, throwing into them little garrisons, and loopholing the walls.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
The enemy’s position was naturally strong, and was rendered more so by blockhouses, a stone fort and entrenchments cut in solid rock, and the loopholing of a solidly built stone church.
From The Boys of '98 by James Otis
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