expiations

Definition of expiationsnext
plural of expiation

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Noun
  • The city currently collects a 3% Cannabis Retailers Occupation Tax on recreational cannabis sales to use as revenue for reparations, in addition to funding from Evanston’s real estate transfer tax.
    Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The full scope of these reparations remains unclear, and a specific dollar amount wasn’t noted.
    Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • One objection in the White House, according to a person who works on pardons, may have been Ver’s flamboyant rejection of his American citizenship.
    Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Not everyone who posts will end up behind bars and many cases end with pardons.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Working for his hometown has its satisfactions After living all over the world for 25 years in the foreign service, Marc Shaw, 51, was ready to come home to Kansas City, Missouri.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Niazi doesn’t discuss the frustrations or satisfactions of this process.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Her return to Venezuela would be combustible—Rodríguez has already threatened reprisals—but potentially transformative.
    Boris Muñoz, Time, 3 Apr. 2026
  • With him was 35-year-old Hani, a technically minded cousin who spearheaded the effort to understand how the abduction took place, and who gave only his first name to avoid reprisals.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • By simultaneously hitting three or more targets, these agents promise not only deeper responses but potentially longer remissions in some of the hardest-to-treat cancers.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The reps and warranties and indemnities clauses will define their obligations.
    Bruce Werner, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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