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something upon which the carrying out of an agreement or offer depends their proposal for a baseball franchise includes several stipulations that are unacceptable

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Recent Examples of stipulation What began as a development stipulation has matured into one of the city’s most distinct urban sanctuaries. Jennifer Lee, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025 But the union expressed concerns that these new proposals — while offering an 11% raise over three years — lacked an agreement that employees who went on strike will not face retaliation upon their return to work and added new stipulations that had been removed from negotiations in January. Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2025 The last time a city judge agreed to a stipulation was in 2023, when a Family Court judge resigned while under investigation for long absences from work and a Surrogate Court judge resigned amid charges of misconduct. Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2025 The two parties had yet to reach an agreement on the exact language for the stipulation, and planned to continue discussions overnight and into a hearing Thursday. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stipulation
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Noun
  • With key provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) set to expire at the end of this year, Washington is debating tax reform behind closed doors, and their decisions will reverberate through every corner of American life.
    Jack Salmon, National Review, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Social Security has promised to increase benefits and make retroactive payments to people affected by the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset.
    Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
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  • Marrying Business Impact With Economics While the industry has witnessed a proliferation of smaller, specialized AI models, significant AI chip innovation remains essential to deliver the performance requirements for supporting advanced reasoning and multimodal models.
    Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Similar requirements in the past have driven producer countries to strengthen and clarify protections against deforestation.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • As far as the long-term effects, frequent and heavy alcohol consumption can lead to serious health conditions like liver disease, heart problems, increased cancer risk and damage to the nervous system.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
  • California’s capital city was ranked 13th for Easter traditions and was in eighth place overall for weather conditions, according to WalletHub. Which other California cities made the list?
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacbee.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • The exception means employees can work remotely from anywhere in North Carolina, not solely within Mecklenburg County.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The only exception is that when the three characters fall, the remaining two can be called as backup to help finish the fight.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
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  • Regarding the Rio Grande, the 1944 treaty directs Mexico to deliver 1.75 million-acre feet to the U.S. over the course of a five-year distribution cycle — with the proviso that Mexico can carry over deficits from one cycle to the next.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The state of Nevada has earmarked $380 million in public money with the proviso that Fisher has to spend $100 million out of his pocket first, Hill said.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 10 Mar. 2025
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  • Superintendents and state lawmakers are preparing for contingencies: What happens if federal contributions shrink further next fiscal year?
    Michelle Mbekeani, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The United States and its allies will need to improve their defense industrial bases and build stocks to better prepare for these contingencies in the future.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Stipulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stipulation. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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