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Recent Examples of annulment Dennis told police the couple had recently married and were discussing an annulment at the time of the incident, Mitchell said. Kc Baker, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Francis was accused by his critics of acting in this way with his positions on Eucharist for those remarried without a prior annulment and on blessings for gay couples. Dennis Doyle, The Conversation, 8 May 2025 But with Matty’s help — in particular her coaxing Grant’s priest into praising his parishioner’s devout Catholicism — the team is able to get an annulment, proving Grant committed fraud by lying about his religious faith to his atheist wife. Noel Murray, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025 The court documents cited irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital conduct as the reason for divorce, with Billy Ray also seeking an annulment on the grounds of fraud. Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for annulment
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Noun
  • And an even larger proportion of the same segment of American society, even those willing to contemplate the abolition of slavery, could not imagine a post-emancipation America of racial equality as anything but a nightmare.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The latest series of bills seems to take these concerns into account, while pushing further away the possibility of a complete abolition of property taxes in the state.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The repeals still need to make it into the final version of the defense policy legislation hashed out both chambers, but the effort clearly has momentum.
    Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Clearly, this is not a vote to support or repeal gerrymandering.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Annulment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annulment. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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