immunity

noun

i-ˈmyü-nə-tē How to pronounce immunity (audio)
Definition of immunitynext
as in protection
freedom from punishment, harm, or loss the suspect refused to name his partners unless he was granted immunity

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Recent Examples of immunity The case follows a Ninth Circuit ruling this month rejecting Meta’s bid to use Section 230 immunity to halt the trial, a decision that also cleared the way for thousands of other pending social media harm lawsuits. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2026 The Supreme Court vacated the lower court’s decision in 2024 and ruled that former Presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for certain official acts, but not for unofficial acts. — Callum Sutherland, Time, 17 Aug. 2026 But both Biggerstaff and son Juan Biggerstaff will testify that they were offered full immunity in this case. — Lianna Norman, Florida Times-Union, 17 Aug. 2026 Trump’s statements were used against him in both trials, but Trump’s lawyers did not raise the immunity issue in their appeal of the first judgement. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for immunity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immunity
  1. protection
  2. exemption
  3. defense
  4. security
  5. impunity
Noun
  • Nobody in their right mind would argue that Alphabet and Nvidia need laws to protect them from competition, but lots of otherwise intelligent people believe that banks, an even more profitable group of companies, do need such protection.
    — Omid Malekan, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Friendship was also the protection built into Difficult People.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of protection
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  • The measure would increase the $50,000 property tax exemption for homestead properties to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028, but the portion of the property bill that goes to K-12 public schools would be exempt from the exemption.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Florida’s Amendment 3 would increase the non-school homestead exemption from $50,000 to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of exemption
Noun
  • An Israeli military source told CNN the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had gathered intelligence on Turkey’s plans to deploy personnel, drones and air-defense systems at the site.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Somebody years ago should have realized NSA Bahrain could be attacked, its air defense might fail and it could be disabled in a long war.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of defense
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  • Mutual care becomes easier when the agreement respects your security too.
    — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • If your toddler would rather try the toilet first, use a potty training seat to add security and ease anxiety about falling into the toilet.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of security
Noun
  • For the first time, after decades of brutal Assad rule – by both Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad before him - the model of impunity in Syria has been broken, even if the penalty is unlikely to ever be carried out.
    — Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Each of these men is willing and able to save Palestinian lives with their bare hands, even if that means traveling to a place where children are murdered at 600 times the rate in Ukraine, and doctors are targeted with similar impunity.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of impunity

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