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dues

noun

plural of due

as in privileges

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Noun

Re-entry is not permitted for general admission ticket holders; VIP, Deluxe and Deluxe+ passes allow in-and-out privileges.

— Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Agents upgraded their own privileges within third-party software hosted by OpenAI and attacked OpenAI internal networks more than once, according to the company's technical report on the Hugging Face incident.

— Shaun Raviv, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of privileges

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All the austerity options—cutting spending, reforming entitlements, or raising taxes are measures politicians are reluctant to embrace before an election.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
That structure draws on capabilities Lowery Company has used across its broader development work, from feasibility and site acquisition through entitlements, design coordination, construction management and operations.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of entitlements

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Martin insisted that it could be done without schmaltz, but the singer was wary of wrecking their reputation with classical pretensions.

— Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
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

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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