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as in reparation
payment to another for a loss or injury
the court awarded the plaintiff a substantial quittance for bodily injury and emotional distress
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quittance
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On Tuesday night, investigators located and arrested 43-year-old Fullerton man Jeffrey Lynn Clayton on suspicion of homicide, the release said.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Interestingly, Dzierzewski also noted that warming the hands and feet before bed can help the body release heat more efficiently and fall asleep faster.—
Lily Hautau,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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The fees would act as a kind of war reparations, says Ghiselli, while allowing Iran to institutionalize its management of the shipping route.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
7 Apr. 2026
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The city currently collects a 3% Cannabis Retailers Occupation Tax on recreational cannabis sales to use as revenue for reparations, in addition to funding from Evanston’s real estate transfer tax.—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Since his discharge after a three-day hospital stay, Rodríguez has been recovering at home with continued medical supervision, the team said.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Shaikh has focused on combining industrial scale with responsible production, implementing zero-liquid-discharge dyeing, closed-loop water recycling systems that save millions of litres of water each month, renewable energy and waste-to-energy technologies.—
Assef Shaikh,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The union is also pushing for more flexibility in school-level decision-making and clearer guidelines around work hours and compensation for extended duties.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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For many, however, the compensation being offered is not enough.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Are a homeowner with a property tax exemption in California.—
Alexiah Syrai Olsen,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The rules are riddled with conditional exemptions that even experienced attorneys struggle to interpret.—
Tom Manzo,
Oc Register,
6 Apr. 2026
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The restaurant groups are now suing for more than $1 million in direct damages, as well as for punitive damages, attorneys' fees, and costs.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Musk is seeking more than $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that OpenAI defrauded him as a donor by restructuring the business away from its nonprofit roots.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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Those claims alleged that companies had engineered products to be more addictive; for example, by adding chemicals to speed and intensify nicotine delivery to the brain and to ease inhalation, so that smokers would become unable to quit.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Horner complained that the delivery truck didn’t have a working backup camera.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
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Request a recall or reversal and ask for a hold harmless letter or letter of indemnity.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Dec. 2025
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Perry was also accused of intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and indemnity and contribution.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Quittance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quittance. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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