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dues

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plural of due

as in privileges

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She was sentenced to 12 months of probation and community service and lost her driving privileges in Georgia.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
Unlike all the other platforms, Windows apps generally run with all the privileges of the user, whereas other platforms encourage the restriction of the privileges of each application by default.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of privileges

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In a Microsoft Fabric and Power BI estate, OneLake security, sensitivity labels and row-level security let entitlements travel with the data rather than depending on each AI front end to behave.

— Leon Gordon, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Matt Tapp, director of acquisitions and entitlements at Griffin Riley, said Monday that the project represents several years of close collaboration with city officials.

— Ilana Arougheti July 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

Definition of entitlements

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The genre, with its sanitized storylines and Oscar-baiting pretensions, seems fundamentally at odds with the iconoclastic chef and television personality.

— Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
Like Paul Schrader’s 1982 version of the latter, this is an upscale genre piece whose pretensions towards Art are upfront, starting with a quotation from no less than Schopenhauer.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2026

Definition of pretensions

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The strategic mistake of invading Iraq on false pretenses was then compounded by tactical errors.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Johnson created the story of Nancy (Emilia Jones), who is not a girlfriend, but a crush who Bourdain foolhardily (and under false pretenses) follows to Provincetown after not getting a writing fellowship.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2026

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