Examples of rescission in a Sentence
the judge ruled that the town's rescission of the contract was justified due the contractor's repeated failures to meet its obligations
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Forest Service officials did not respond to a request Wednesday about potential impacts of the rescission on Idaho’s Roadless Rule or roadless rules in Colorado and Alaska.
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Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2025
The benefit for President Donald Trump’s administration of a formal rescissions request is that the passage requires only a simple majority in the 100-member Senate instead of the 60 votes usually required to get spending bills through that chamber.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Despite the President's message, not all Republicans voted yes on the rescission.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
The future of federal funding for public media is, for the first time in decades, facing a very real risk of being eliminated, after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass President Trump’s rescission package, which pulls $1.1 billion in funding for PBS and NPR.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
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Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 25 June 2025
The benefit for President Donald Trump’s administration of a formal rescissions request is that the passage requires only a simple majority in the 100-member Senate instead of the 60 votes usually required to get spending bills through that chamber.
—Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
Despite the President's message, not all Republicans voted yes on the rescission.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
The future of federal funding for public media is, for the first time in decades, facing a very real risk of being eliminated, after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass President Trump’s rescission package, which pulls $1.1 billion in funding for PBS and NPR.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
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“Rescission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rescission. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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rescission
noun
re·scis·sion
ri-ˈsizh-ən 
: an act of rescinding
Legal Definition
rescission
noun
re·scis·sion
ri-ˈsi-zhən
: the act, process, or fact of rescinding especially a contract
specifically
: the equitable judicial remedy of rescinding a contract in a suit brought by one of the parties compare reformation
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