as in tariff
an amount of money that a government requires people to pay according to the value of certain possessions that are made, sold, or used within a country
The state seems to impose an excise on any number of goods.
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Recent Examples of excise
Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
In a country where Trump has used his various grievances to excise concessions from the media, tech, education, food and baseball industries, banking CEOs might just be the latest ones to try to meet his latest demand.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Dana El Kurd, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
To excise these communities is to strip away the strength of the modern force.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
—Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
In a country where Trump has used his various grievances to excise concessions from the media, tech, education, food and baseball industries, banking CEOs might just be the latest ones to try to meet his latest demand.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
In fact, the framework explicitly states that Hamas must be excised from any future discussions of postwar Gaza.
—Dana El Kurd, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
To excise these communities is to strip away the strength of the modern force.
—Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excise
Noun
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And businesses that have so far swallowed the tariffs without raising prices may not be able to for much longer.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Trump’s tariffs are unpopular Trump has argued that tariffs will bring manufacturing and jobs back to the United States, but the public hasn’t gotten behind them.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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This week, the Supreme Court itself sounded skeptical that the IEEPA emergency statute lets a president unilaterally tax the world.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Federal land isn’t taxable, and the government holds most reservation land in trust for Native tribes, so it can’t be taxed, either.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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These risks have prompted the United States, China, and other spacefaring nations to develop advanced systems for tracking, avoiding, and potentially removing orbital debris.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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My son removes his shoes and socks and joins me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Trump levied his greatest assault against the international economic order, announcing the most expansive set of tariffs in American history on both autocratic adversaries and America’s closest democratic allies in April 2025 (Russia was strikingly excluded).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement Mamdani’s political success is largely credited to a media-savvy campaign that centered affordability in one of the world’s most expensive cities, with Mamdani vowing to levy New York’s ultra-rich to pay for childcare, transportation, and even grocery stores.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The amount of space between garden soil particles is so minuscule that container plants struggle to send their roots into it and extract nutrients from it.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Nov. 2025
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Historically, concrete production depended heavily on natural sand and gravel extracted from riverbeds, a practice that led to severe environmental degradation in some regions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The rub is that mandatory gratuities, the 15% to 20% that restaurants often impose on parties of six people or more, aren’t eligible for the deduction, a disappointment to the restaurant and foodservice industry, which held out hope for a different outcome.—
Cheryl Winokur Munk,
CNBC,
8 Nov. 2025
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Scenes start, jarringly, without introduction or fanfare, as though we’ve been vaulted into the action; the plot resists all attempts by the viewer to impose any kind of order.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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After occupying Sinai, Britain and France succumbed to international pressure and withdrew their forces from Egypt in November.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics withdrew its guidance that said potential allergens should be avoided for high-risk babies, but didn’t have enough data to recommend introducing them early.—
Meg Tirrell,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Even outside the protections of the settlement agreement, some homeless people say they are being ticketed repeatedly in the name of other city parking rules that penalize them for the same act of sleeping in their vehicles overnight on public property.—
Kristen Taketa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Nov. 2025
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In the last calendar year, Luvu has been fined three times for a hip-drop tackle, but he hasn't been penalized for any of the tackles.—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Excise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excise. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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