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Recent Examples of moratorium Lander’s push for pandemic rent relief at times went beyond calling for an eviction moratorium and rental assistance. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025 President Trump, a longtime critic of wind energy, issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects, one of his first executive orders upon returning to the White House. Jeongyoon Han, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025 The moratorium hasn’t slowed much down, because Texas law prohibits cities from stopping development that has already been approved. Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025 One of the executive orders directs agencies to lift barriers to coal mining on federal lands and prioritize coal leasing, formally ending an Obama-era moratorium against coal leasing on federal land. Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for moratorium
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Noun
  • On April 21, Harvard, which rejected the demands, filed a lawsuit in a Boston federal court challenging the suspension of funds.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Suspicious activity could lead to the disqualification of candidates and a permanent suspension of the Athlete of the Week poll.
    Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The missing logic is very evident in the thriller that also fails to offer thrills and suspense.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • The audience is at risk of being too many steps ahead of the action, and the time between McRobbie’s first appearance and the official onscreen reveal is too long to keep up the appropriate amount of suspense.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025

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