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loophole

[loop-hohl] / ˈlupˌhoʊl /


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Don’t think of it as a loophole, said Matt Chancey is the founder of Tax Alpha Companies.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

It shouldn’t allow digital-asset legislation to undermine it through a commodities-law loophole.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Some experts warn that attributing too much to AI could give tech companies a loophole to avoid responsibility and liability.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

But I get it: You are afraid you have left some giant loophole in your estate planning that could cause delays or worse after you’re gone.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

“You not only made it to New York, you seem to be taking advantage of every loophole I ever taught you.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

Missouri’s Legislature passed a law last year to protect residential consumers from price spikes caused by large users, though critics complain it has loopholes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 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

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

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the new system would protect "genuine refugees" while "closing loopholes that have been too often abused".

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

After Comrade Pillai left, Inspector Thomas Mathew went over their conversation in his mind, teasing it, testing its logic, looking for loopholes.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

The east side opposite it was to be a loopholed stockade of single timbers two feet thick and fourteen feet above the ground.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

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

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

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




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