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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 excises
Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
Higher Ed Excise Taxes In most parts of [America], excises must be confined within a narrow compass.
—Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excises
Noun
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Trump’s posturing underscored how his alliance with Meloni — long seen as one of his closest friends in Europe — has frayed over his war in Iran, his tariffs against Europe and his complaints when anyone disagrees with him.—
Nicole Winfield,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
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Meloni is astonished and defiant Trump’s posturing underscored how his alliance with Meloni — who has long been seen as one of his closest friends in Europe — has frayed over his war in Iran, his tariffs against Europe and his complaints when anyone disagrees with him.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Verb
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The most common confusion points are almost always the trust taxes worth eliminating first.—
Michael Goshka,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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At the center of one of the competing measures is a proposal to change how Inglewood taxes stadium tickets.—
Christopher Damien,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Verb
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This process extracts the melon’s precious juice and preserves its vivid color.—
Jesse Szewczyk,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 June 2026
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Like Fernando Alonso and once upon a time, Sebastian Vettel, Hulkenberg often extracts more out of the car than anyone would expect.—
Jerry Perez,
The Drive,
11 June 2026
Verb
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Not work-life-balance-wise, but that’s sort of one of the ways that imposes itself.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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The charging-time penalty the new method imposes could be less than three seconds per session—a pretty tolerable penalty for a potential gain of two or three extra years of useful battery life.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
17 June 2026
Verb
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This removes a major trigger for addictive doomscrolling and the reinforcement of harmful content.—
Paul Monckton,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Specifically, people believe this practice removes a plant compound found called phytate that's found in almonds.—
Chelsea Rae Bourgeois,
Health,
18 June 2026
Verb
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Beyond the federal government, each state also levies their own separate gas taxes.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Beyond the federal government, each state also levies their own separate gas taxes.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
Verb
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Israel wants to disarm Hezbollah immediately before the Israeli military ends its operations in Lebanon and withdraws its troops from dozens of villages and towns.—
Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Jasmine withdraws much of the time.—
Larissa MacFarquhar,
New Yorker,
28 May 2026
Verb
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Generous leave policies frequently go underused, particularly by men, if workplace culture quietly penalizes those who take advantage of them.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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The system rewards deference and penalizes the judgment oversight was designed to protect.—
Tiffany Archer,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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“Excises.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excises. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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