stipulate

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Recent Examples of stipulate The autopsy did not stipulate who is believed to have killed Hood, but seemed to corroborate authorities’ belief that he was killed in self-defense by one of two people in the home at the time. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025 The city’s rules stipulate that the listing of companies may be canceled if trading in their securities has remained suspended for 18 months consecutively. CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025 That's a problem considering Wisconsin building codes don't include any kind of flood plain regulations that would stipulate how to elevate a building, or where not to build based on floodplains, said Sarah Rafajko, the state's National Flood Insurance Program coordinator. Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Let’s stipulate that the country would be better off if redrawing congressional maps were firmly restricted to the decennial census, as the Wall Street Journal recently editorialized. Kevin Igoe, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stipulate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stipulate
Verb
  • Spotify’s blog post didn’t specify whether the development would be opt-in or opt-out to determine training permissions.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The law did not specify whether the hanging should be public or private.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Though the industry is bracing for an EV sales slump, GM's leaders insist that investing deeply and early in a broad range of electric offerings was not a mistake.
    Jackie Charniga, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Republican speaker insists his party has been willing to discuss the health care issue with Democrats this fall, before the subsidies expire at the end of the year.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Their rugged endurance is what endears Jeeps to car-lovers with a sense of history and who appreciate the significance of a vehicle that defined an indefatigable generation.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Lyra’s existence pushes back against the moral absolutes and gendered expectations that define her world and seek to limit her agency.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Where Frazer’s method was freewheeling, Indo-Europeanists are exacting.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Who among us hasn’t fantasized in the shower about exacting elaborate revenge for petty upsets, or lain awake trying to reframe our humiliations as epic tales of triumph?
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Also, sources familiar with Madrid’s internal discussions say that the current hierarchy wants to ensure that decisions such as hiring or firing the coach and player transfers would always be made by the board, which is ultimately answerable to the socios.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • To ensure compliance, their technology digs deeper than basic IP address recognition to monitor the exact place someone tries to place a wager, sifting through real-time data from sources such as GPS coordinates, cell phone towers, WiFi access points and Bluetooth beacons.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But unless courts enjoin it, the statutory carry requirement is enforceable nationwide.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The department is denying student loan forgiveness to borrowers in the IBR plan who have reached the 20- or 25-year threshold for discharge, even while the department concedes that loan forgiveness is authorized under IBR and has not been blocked or enjoined by any court.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The palace officials assured them the president was there, hashing out a plan with his military and Russian and Iranian advisers to confront the advancing rebel forces.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • If the idea of dining near the deceased feels macabre, rest assured this place feels very much alive.
    Diana Hubbell, Saveur, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Murray, in turn, was asked to be a two-way player in ways that were not necessarily originally expected for the young prospect with a deft shooting touch.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Get people to ask hard questions about everything and not to trust anything on its face.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Stipulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stipulate. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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