How to Use exemption in a Sentence

exemption

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  • You can claim a tax exemption for each of your dependents.
  • They were granted exemptions from military service.
  • In 2017, the Supreme Court struck down the exemption law.
    — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • Whether or not Novak’s able to gt the exemption before that is up in the air.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The White House has said the tariff exemption will serve as a bridge while the U.S. sector ramps up.
    — Fox News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • In extreme cases, the I.R.S. could revoke the group’s tax exemption.
    — David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • 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
  • That exemption, the court found, favored in-state sellers over those out-of-state—a distinction that isn't allowed.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Resentment of their exemption has grown as Israeli soldiers fight the war in Gaza.
    — Hannah Jewell, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • 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
  • The spokesperson didn’t list any exemption to that policy.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2023
  • 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 there has to be a better plan than waiting for more losses in court or hoping to get some kind of antitrust exemption through Congress.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 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
  • Ohio State usually seeks an exemption to the Big Ten travel limit to bring along Babb, dating back to last season.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Larsson was signed to a three-year contract, utilizing what the NBA terms the second-round exemption, with a $1.2 million salary for the coming season.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2024
  • The others are private or are covered under a state exemption.
    — Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But none of the 70 who received an exemption were granted an accommodation, the suit said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Mata has lived in her two-bedroom Echo Park apartment for 35 years and her landlord is trying for the third time to evict her under the substantial remodel exemption.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

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