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statutory

adjective

Definition of statutory

as in constitutional

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Recent Examples of statutory The citation does not identify a specific statutory subsection. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Investigators missed statutory elements of stalking, which could have provided an opportunity to arrest the suspect. — Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 JPMorgan is on track to secure a merchant banking license in Nigeria after making a $38 million statutory deposit to the country’s central bank, Bloomberg reported. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2026 On Tuesday, the campaign published a memo from the Office of Legislative Counsel, whose attorneys advise state lawmakers, which found a statutory definition used by the measure does not apply to the politically unpopular computing centers. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for statutory

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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

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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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