How to Use exemption in a Sentence

exemption

noun
  • You can claim a tax exemption for each of your dependents.
  • They were granted exemptions from military service.
  • The most recent Supreme Court case to address the exemption is the 1972 case Flood v. Kuhn.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The law contains an exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a stand-alone item.
    Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
    Todd Richmond, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The exemptions are narrow, critics say, and the penalties are harsh.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The exemptions are expected to cost the state $1 million or less.
    Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
  • How this exemption for small farms plays out looks different in the country’s dairy states.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2023
  • How and why those exemptions were granted was not defined.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
  • Playing on a sponsor’s exemption, Sargent is set to tee off in the first round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic at 1:11 p.m.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 28 June 2023
  • The winner will receive an exemption into the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge.
    Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • The FedEx Cup champion also gets a five-year exemption.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • What happened with Panera and the bread-making exemption?
    Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But Bee reporters found in 2023 that few families were using the exemption.
    Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In 1935, Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the first woman to receive a sponsor exemption.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But another appeals court in Cincinnati in 2021 ruled that the exemption does not apply to tire chalking.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Florida outbreak comes at a time when the number of national vaccine exemptions has reached an all-time high.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Despite this, the justices still declined to overturn the exemption on stare decisis grounds.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The group of reservists has held regular protests calling for an end to the broad ultra-Orthodox exemption.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Last week, a group of taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers staged a protest outside Ms. Hochul’s office and sent a letter demanding exemptions to the tolls.
    Ana Ley, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • So this 70 under 70 bill that legislators have have put forward in the house could come on top of the state’s homestead exemption and other tax breaks for older Ohioans.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In order to qualify for this specific exemption, the trust or estate will need to refile their W-9.
    Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • According to Clarke’s book, the cemetery should have been exempt from taxes, but the paperwork was never filed for that exemption.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • There’s gonna be a sales tax ex exemption starting October 1st on baby supplies.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • In addition, the lifetime estate and gift tax exemption would be slashed in half, making many estates taxable again.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • That would not explain exemptions allowing people to keep their chauffeurs and chefs.
    Jane Bradley, New York Times, 27 July 2023
  • Vaccine exemptions reached 3% this year, the highest level ever seen.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Taliban has ordered most Afghan female aid staff not to work, though granted exemptions in health and education.
    Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Floor Investments did not respond to an email seeking comment, and Roach did not respond to a request for comment about the impact of the exemptions in his district.
    Conor Devlin, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2023
  • And for most of those that do participate, the exemptions typically apply to a small sampling of consumer items.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 7 Aug. 2023

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