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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

The results were impacted by the expiration of the de minimis loophole last May for China and Hong Kong.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 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

Josie’s father racked his brain for another loophole, something the woman hadn’t thought of that would mean he could still turn around and take Josie home with him.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“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 section’s vague language and many loopholes could have a chilling effect on any research that studies the effects of a disease, policy or public health intervention on any specific group of people, Rafla-Yuan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

May's sanctions on brokers are the toughest measures taken by officials in years to plug loopholes that people long used to bypass capital controls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

"Anthropic to close China loopholes" reads the Financial Times, which says that Chinese companies had been accessing Anthropic's AI tools with workarounds such as cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

We climbed down from the wall with the crowd, and had a last look at the bulls through the loopholes in the wall of the corral.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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 heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Here trenches were dug, barbed-wire entanglements set up, barns and cottages loopholed and placed in a state of defence in order to keep in check the German hordes until the expected aid was forthcoming.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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

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

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