statutory

Definition of statutorynext

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Recent Examples of statutory Nearly 50,000 property owners were not notified of valuations by the June 15 statutory deadline. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026 McCormick further ordered prejudgment interest on those distributions, calculated from the dates the payments were made and compounded quarterly at the statutory rate. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Oct. 2026 The government upped the allowance two years ago (from £5,000 to £10,500), but this year, nothing changed despite rising national insurance and statutory wages. — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026 The ruling only addressed criminal liability and did not curtail Congress’ constitutional authority to investigate presidential conduct, control federal spending, enact statutory restrictions and, in serious cases, pursue impeachment. — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for statutory
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Adjective
  • Democrats are expecting to increase their veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the state legislature, along with continuing their streak of winning all Congressional and state constitutional offices since 2006.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
  • To buy their votes for the constitutional amendment (which needs 60% approval statewide), Tallahassee will use state tax dollars to subsidize those rural counties.
    — Steve Geller, Sun Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Any function whose work can be pointed at a proper model of its underlying business, instead of at a general-purpose language model, is starting to compound the same way Anthropic’s engineering did a year ago.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Pentecostal parents Ruth and Marius were accused of domestic violence, with worldwide protests criticizing what dissenters called harsh and hasty steps taken by Norwegian social workers without proper evidence.
    — Tomris Laffly, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

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“Statutory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statutory. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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