loophole
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It would have closed a loophole that makes it easier for advanced manufacturing facilities to be sited in vulnerable neighborhoods without environmental review.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Last year an all-party Westminster inquiry, external called for action to close a legal loophole that allows illegal vehicles to be sold under the guise of off-road use.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Then in 2025, Shein’s revenue growth slowed further to 8% after the de minimis loophole was closed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Compounding the anonymity, these shell companies often benefit from an enormous loophole: They rarely pay federal taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nazario had found a loophole, though it was closed right after that case.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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While pacing the frontier sounds compelling in theory, some believe these ambiguous definitions and loopholes make a slowdown functionally impossible.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The family say they are working alongside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to remove "loopholes" from current legislation around banned dog breeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
So boards start “digging for dollars” by searching for loopholes in restricted funds given by benefactors who are deceased, Moore said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
At the far end was the stone wall of the corrals, with apertures in the stone that were like loopholes running all along the face of each corral.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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 heavy gold was stowed into armored trucks, ominously loopholed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 road is protected on the cliff side by a thick stone wall, loopholed for musketry, one aperture to every two feet, between fifteen and twenty feet high.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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
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
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
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