How to Use exempt in a Sentence
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What types of income are exempt from a bank levy?
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Open-weight and open-source models are exempt for now.
—Paul Baier, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
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The feds weren’t exempt from problems this week.
—Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
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In some cases, new builds are exempt.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026
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Which counties and cities are exempt?
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025
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But school districts would be exempt.
—Matthew Kelly april 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2026
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So what types of income are exempt from being frozen by a bank levy?
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
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Other states that are not exempt have also been sued.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 20 Mar. 2026
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What products, if any, will be exempt from these tariffs?
—Brian Cheung, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
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The full list of those exempt from EES is here.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
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Student films are exempt from the permit fee.
—Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
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Are kirpans exempt from UK knife laws?
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
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Peace officers are exempt from these rules, the city of Phoenix said.
—Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Small well owners are exempt, along with certain parts of the Tule area.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
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Second, customers who make it to the bathroom should be exempt.
—Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 13 Oct. 2023
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But news broadcasts and talk shows have for years been exempt from those requirements.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
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Returning workers and those with clean records were not exempt.
—Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025
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Some cases, like live deals, were exempt from the policy.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
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Spending bills and changes to tax policy are exempt.
—Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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No one is exempt as we are all affected by this deadly disease.
—Syda Segovia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
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The law says bakeries are exempt from being required to pay the higher wages.
—Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
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Working dogs used by law enforcement and service dogs are exempt from this rule.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
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Are wages exempt from garnishment in Texas?
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
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People from countries that are part of the visa waiver program are exempt.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2026
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Crew members and cargo-only flights are exempt.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 20 May 2026
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Public hospitals would be exempt from the rule.
—Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
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These usually make other parts of your body itchy, and the feet aren’t exempt from feeling it.
—Marty Munson, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
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By statute, the amount that’s exempt from levy is determined by a formula.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Currently, any income above that amount is exempt from the payroll tax.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 May 2023
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Fifteen counties and 6 cities are exempt.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025
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But that does not exempt us from facing up to the facts.
—Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
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That law exempts large data centers from the state’s sales and use tax.
—Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
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All of that is admirable, but none of it exempts the show from criticism.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
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That law, Kalshi has said, exempts it from the scrutiny of state laws.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 1 Jan. 2026
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There is no amount of rest that exempts you from that biological fact.
—Josh Gondelman, SELF, 21 Dec. 2023
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The cuts would exempt school taxes and forbid cuts to law enforcement.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
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This would exempt the grandparent from filing the gift tax return.
—Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
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Under the act, states can exempt themselves from daylight saving time.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2024
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Meanwhile, none of these cities or states exempt teen summer employment.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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The law also exempts people who inherit guns that are subject to the ban.
—Jim Brunner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
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Why would state law enforcement be exempted?
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
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No crisis exempted it from steep declines.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
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The latter is an attempt to exempt contracts between, say, parents and an adult child.
—Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 1 Feb. 2024
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But the statute exempts defamation claims from that provision, in a nod to free expression.
—Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
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Even those mild-temperature spring days don’t exempt my fair skin from a potential burn.
—Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2026
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The other exempts short-term rentals from the legislation.
—Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2026
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Multiple bills would have exempted the state from daylight saving time.
—Addy Bink, The Hill, 6 Sep. 2025
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End a carveout that exempted the company from state inspections on its theme parks rides.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2023
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That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
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While front-line mental health care workers were largely exempted from the job cuts, hundreds chose to leave anyway.
—Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
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Once the time’s up, the device must shut down applications that aren’t exempted by parents.
—Time, 3 Aug. 2023
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But lawmakers this week balked at exempting property taxes that go to schools.
—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
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State law currently exempts the first $75,000 of every home from that levy.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
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Cities had the opportunity to exempt zero-emissions cars from toll roads.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2026
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Trump exempted some of the nation’s biggest polluters from air quality rules.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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Any effort to also exempt market-rate units from site plan review would require council approval.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
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An amendment was added to the bill that exempts spending for public safety from the election requirement.
—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
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Are some of the billionaires’ assets exempted?
—Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
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Daniels – who serves as minority leader – sponsored a bill that would exempt overtime pay from state taxes.
—Scott Turner | , al, 14 June 2023
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But Allen exempted Caesar from his broadsides.
—CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
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