as in to cancel
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
the judge revoked the jail sentence when the defendant promised to do community service instead
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Recent Examples of revoke
Efforts to revoke Food and Drug Administration approval of the polio vaccine could provide a preview of how vaccine skeptics plan to challenge decades of federal health policy during a second Trump administration, experts say.
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Tina Reed, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
The New York Times reported Friday that a lawyer helping Kennedy hire federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the federal government to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Aaron Siri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal attorney, has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the hepatitis B and polio vaccines, and block the distribution of 13 others.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
Both Trump and Vice-President elect JD Vance have suggested scaling back or even revoking some legal avenues for immigration, leaving even some with legal status feeling in limbo.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Tina Reed, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
The New York Times reported Friday that a lawyer helping Kennedy hire federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the federal government to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.
—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
Aaron Siri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal attorney, has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of the hepatitis B and polio vaccines, and block the distribution of 13 others.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
Both Trump and Vice-President elect JD Vance have suggested scaling back or even revoking some legal avenues for immigration, leaving even some with legal status feeling in limbo.
—Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Dec. 2024
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The church canceled the charity event with bags of rice and clothing items still arranged within the premises.Dyepkazah Shibayan and Chinedu Asadu, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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Several schools have canceled Friday classes in Wisconsin due to the snowy weather.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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If the department’s predictions are correct, the U.S. would be essentially abandoning any pretense of trying to limit climate change.Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Claridge Hotel’s former casino sits abandoned as well.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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All of those provisions were scrapped when Elon Musk and President-elect Trump tanked the bill.Axios, Axios, 21 Dec. 2024
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The script, co-written by Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes, scraps Whitehead’s opening prologue about the wretched cemetery to instead emphasize that this will be a bittersweet celebration of life.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Although the Biden administration initially sought to rescind it more than a year earlier, the policy did not ultimately end until May 2023, when the pandemic public health emergency was officially declared over.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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There was the debacle when a lucrative agreement with Carlos Correa was rescinded when his physical disclosed a previous ankle injury only hours prior to the media conference announcing the deal.Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 22 Dec. 2024
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Though women can also abort a pregnancy taking only misoprostol, according to Planned Parenthood.Alyssa Goldberg, The Courier-Journal, 13 Nov. 2024
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According to a SpaceX spokesperson, this even surprised them because the expectation was that the Super Heavy would either crash or be forced at the last second to abort the landing and dump itself into the Gulf of Mexico.David Szondy, New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2024
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A number of labor unions across industries have been at the forefront of the years-long push to repeal WEP and GPO.Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2024
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While Republicans will control both houses of Congress next month, GOP leaders who support the limit could easily delay or kill any effort to repeal it.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Revoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revoke. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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