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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, Diehl helped lead a successful ballot campaign that repealed part of a 2013 law that created increases in the state gas tax tied to the rate of inflation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"With the price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. hovering around $5, President Joe Biden has attempted to take action by calling on Congress last week to enact a three-month pause on the federal gasoline tax . \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Macron\u2019s government previously scrapped the housing tax as part of the same plan. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"For a house valued at $1 million, the tax is $50 a year. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The state tax is tied to inflation and set to increase Friday from around 36 cents to about 43 cents per gallon. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Last week, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days and encouraged state governments to suspend their own gas taxes. \u2014 Ben Ritz, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Now, eight months later, there has been little progress on changing national laws to implement the tax . \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"Should the Blazers land in the tax , the taxpayer mid-level exception will be about $6.2 million. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
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"Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don\u2019t make the problem worse. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Gabriela Bucher, the executive director of Oxfam International, told CNN Business at Davos this week that governments should tax wealth on the world's wealthiest people. \u2014 Ramishah Maruf, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"Government officials at both the state and federal levels have been trying for years to tax and spend their way to fiscal success. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Issue 4 was actually a charter amendment that would have raised the limit the city can tax property owners for fire department buildings, equipment and operations to 5.8 mills. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Some thriving and happy European countries, Switzerland and Belgium among them, do not normally tax capital gains at all. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Currently, there are nine states that don't tax wages, ranging from Florida to New Hampshire. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Tax-cut proposals are a direct effort to compete with states that don't tax earnings, including Texas, Florida and Tennessee \u2014 places to which many young Mississippians are moving for fatter paychecks. \u2014 Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Netflix doesn\u2019t want to dismantle password-sharing completely, only to tax the practice. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"In the next scene, Allison arrives via taxi at her old house in Los Angeles. \u2014 Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR , 22 June 2022",
"After that, it will be expanded to cover ride-sharing services, carpools, and new mobility solutions that will appear, such as autonomous taxi drones. \u2014 Bernard Marr, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"Eduardo Conticello has had many near-misses with his taxi and would like to see scooters abolished completely. \u2014 Barbie Latza Nadeau With Hada Messia, CNN , 19 June 2022",
"The Gala Marty, Wendy, Jonah and Charlotte crawl out of the wreckage with barely a scratch, take a taxi home, get dressed up and attend a fancy gala celebrating the Byrde Family Foundation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022",
"Last month, Volocopter completed its first flight for a third vehicle, the VoloConnect\u2014its newest taxi that will be able to carry four passengers for up to 70 miles. \u2014 Jessica Mathews, Fortune , 7 June 2022",
"Sedans, SUVs and a blue taxi lined up along one Pudong district street that has a string of auto repair shops busy fixing flat tires and AC problems. \u2014 Rachel Liang, WSJ , 1 June 2022",
"Defense lawyers noted that Sussmann, who didn't testify, billed the taxi ride to the FBI building to his law firm at the time, Perkins Coie, rather than to the Clinton campaign. \u2014 Bart Jansen, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"But Berkowitz noted that Sussmann billed his taxi ride to FBI headquarters for the meeting to his law firm, rather than the campaign. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 28 May 2022",
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"The four crew members -- three paying passengers and a former NASA astronaut there to serve as commander -- taking part in the mission, dubbed Ax-1, will taxi to the ISS via SpaceX vehicles as part of the 10-day trip. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"After that, aircraft will be able to taxi underneath the western skybridge, adding two extra miles of taxiway space to the airport. \u2014 Laura Ly, CNN , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Everybody at Uber/Lyft will have to taxi once a month. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"That gives it some mobility, but limits its ability to taxi around the ground. \u2014 J. George Gorant, Robb Report , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Indians use the fintech service to pay for a wide range of goods and services, from groceries to taxi fares to airline tickets. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Only one engine was used to taxi along the runway for takeoff. \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Before that, the Internet established new networks of information which transformed daily activities from product shopping to business meetings to even taxi summoning. \u2014 Steve Tengler, Forbes , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Avery Lalor can taxi an airplane, take off, run radio communications, and navigate the skies using an aircraft\u2019s GPS system. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 13 July 2021"
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"The taxicab pulled to a stop in front of a white colonial residence in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. \u2014 Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"Early Wednesday morning, an armed California man was detained by police shortly after getting out of a taxicab in front of Kavanaugh\u2019s house. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 9 June 2022",
"Instead of following her on foot, Mr. Galella hailed a taxicab . \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
"An Idaho man arrested this month is accused of shooting and killing an Anchorage taxicab driver in 1985. \u2014 Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Not long ago, on a busy road from the airport in a taxicab , my daughter and the driver watched in horror as a deer leapt in front of a large truck a couple of lanes over. \u2014 Natalie Angier, The New York Review of Books , 9 May 2019",
"Water taxis are part taxicab , part ferry, part tour boat and all fun. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Oct. 2021",
"The plan also includes $65 million in relief for the Big Apple's struggling taxicab industry, which faces stiff competition from rideshare companies like Lyft and Uber, and is comprised mostly of immigrants and people of color. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Try to pay for a taxicab in Shanghai or Shenzhen with physical notes, and prepare for dirty looks. \u2014 Charlie Campbell, Time , 11 Aug. 2021"
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"That\u2019s not a great head space in such a mentally taxing game, in which the space between the ears makes the difference between good players and great ones. \u2014 Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times , 15 June 2022",
"While Myers gave up just four games to Long, her semifinal match Saturday morning was a bit more taxing . \u2014 Gabby Hajduk, The Indianapolis Star , 11 June 2022",
"The next matchup was far more taxing , as the Celtics fell behind the Bucks, three games to two, but rallied to win the series in seven games. \u2014 Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com , 30 May 2022",
"McCullum has had plum T20 franchise gigs, including currently coaching Kolkata Knight Riders in the high-profile Indian Premier League, but the grind of international cricket will be far more taxing and a trickier challenge. \u2014 Tristan Lavalette, Forbes , 13 May 2022",
"Risky decision-making is a tall and taxing order, psychologically speaking. \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a specific scene in this that must have been quite taxing . \u2014 Simon Thompson, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"Focusing on the financial impact of the decisions that must be made during a separation process is very difficult when the emotional impact of the situation is so taxing . \u2014 Kimberly R. Nelson, Forbes , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Curling has one of the most taxing schedules of any sport at the Winter Games, with competitions stretching from Feb. 2 to Feb. 20 and with as many as three rounds of matches a day. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Feb. 2022"
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"Trevor Patton Crow was initially arrested on charges of first-degree possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to affix a tax stamp following a raid at his Tuscaloosa home on Tuesday. \u2014 Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al , 3 Mar. 2022",
"These guns do not require a special tax stamp to own. \u2014 The Editors, Outdoor Life , 30 Jan. 2019",
"Police had approached Garner on suspicion of selling cigarettes from packs without tax stamps . \u2014 Nicquel Terry Ellis, USA TODAY , 23 Dec. 2019",
"Terry Tucker, 58, of Rockford, Illinois, was charged with possession for sale and evasion of the state\u2019s drug tax stamp act. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 6 Nov. 2019",
"From the left cargo pocket of Garner\u2019s shorts, the officer pulled four packs of Newports, each with Virginia tax stamps on the bottom. \u2014 Wesley Lowery, Washington Post , 13 June 2019",
"Dawson is charged with trafficking in methamphetamine, reckless endangerment, attempting to elude, failure to affix tax stamp and giving a false address. \u2014 Carol Robinson, AL.com , 25 Sep. 2017",
"Patrick Jiron was taken into custody and booked on charges of possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp . \u2014 Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity , 10 Jan. 2018",
"Patrick Jiron was booked with possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and having no drug tax stamp . \u2014 Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com , 22 Dec. 2017"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"The way to avoid this risk is to just make sure that there is some document that clearly transfers all the film rights back to the film company, and let the tax shelter promoter worry about any tax risks in doing so. \u2014 Schuyler Moore, Forbes , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"Production investment was provided by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, RTE, Section 481, Vertigo Releasing, BCP, the Belgian tax shelter and Screen Ireland. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
"The tax shelter last year was stripped from New York\u2019s tax code. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Like other types of IRA accounts, Ethereum in an IRA is a capital gains tax shelter . \u2014 Robert Samuels | For Iron Monk Solutions, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The semi-aquatic costs were driven solely by a single species, the yellow fever mosquito, reflecting the substantial human healthcare costs associated with this taxon , the authors note in the study. \u2014 Sahana Ghosh, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
"Failure to deposit a new taxon in two culture collections means researchers miss out on publication in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, ICSP\u2019s official journal, a prerequisite for validation. \u2014 Pratik Pawar, Science | AAAS , 20 Oct. 2020",
"One of the bite marks may be from an unusually large Allosaurus or a separate, large-bodied taxon such as Saurophaganax or Torvosaurus tanneri, which have been found in other parts of the Morrison Formation. \u2014 Kristen Rogers, CNN , 27 May 2020",
"And depending on your view of mammalian evolution, the first taxon to develop diurnality was either the most common recent ancestor of all apes and monkeys or the most common recent ancestor of all\u2026 elephant shrews. \u2014 Diana Gitig, Ars Technica , 10 Nov. 2017",
"The rules for naming a new animal taxon are governed by the ICZN, while the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) governs plants. \u2014 Benjamin Jones, Smithsonian , 7 Sep. 2017",
"Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa . \u2014 Jess Mcnally, WIRED , 28 July 2010"
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"the taxonomies of various plant groups",
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"Earlier this year, a new regulation in Europe took effect that requires public companies with more than 500 employees to disclose what percentage of their operations fall under the European Union\u2019s green taxonomy . \u2014 Mark Maurer, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Scientists have been depicting migration as a destructive force since at least the 18th century, Shah writes, when the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus invented modern taxonomy . \u2014 Sophie Murguia, Outside Online , 30 July 2020",
"The key data elements\u2014currency, for example\u2014can be aligned to a data model or taxonomy . \u2014 Tom Davenport, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"All scientific literature relating to the taxonomy of spiders has been accessible for free on the museum's website since 2014, per a statement. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Sargent's taxonomy is useful for analytical purposes, but the distinctions don't really hold up under scrutiny. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Part of this debate stems from the fact that scientists don\u2019t universally agree upon what counts as a species, per the Times, and dinosaur taxonomy is subjective. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Companies that have a real future focus on having a dynamic skills taxonomy will constantly update the team\u2019s skills, and in doing so, the employee experience. \u2014 Curtis Odom, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In 2020, the government also set up a task force to lay out a concrete road map to bolster India\u2019s sustainable finance architecture that inter alia includes the development of a taxonomy of sustainable activities. \u2014 Shreyans Jain, Quartz , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"borrowed from German Taxis, borrowed from Greek t\u00e1xis \"drawing up in rank and file, order of battle, arrangement, order,\" from tag-, stem of t\u00e1ssein (Attic t\u00e1ttein ) \"to draw up in order (as troops, ships), post, station, place in order, prescribe, assess\" + -sis -sis \u2014 more at tactic entry 2":"Noun",
"borrowed from Greek t\u00e1xis \"arrangement, disposition, order\" \u2014 more at taxis":"Noun combining form"
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"Noun",
"The decision was made to raise taxes .",
"He was accused of evading taxes .",
"What was your income before taxes ?",
"What is the amount of tax to be paid?",
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"He believes in taxing the rich to give to the poor.",
"You are taxed according to your income.",
"puzzles that tax your brain",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, Diehl helped lead a successful ballot campaign that repealed part of a 2013 law that created increases in the state gas tax tied to the rate of inflation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"With the price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. hovering around $5, President Joe Biden has attempted to take action by calling on Congress last week to enact a three-month pause on the federal gasoline tax . \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Macron\u2019s government previously scrapped the housing tax as part of the same plan. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"For a house valued at $1 million, the tax is $50 a year. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The state tax is tied to inflation and set to increase Friday from around 36 cents to about 43 cents per gallon. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Last week, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days and encouraged state governments to suspend their own gas taxes. \u2014 Ben Ritz, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Now, eight months later, there has been little progress on changing national laws to implement the tax . \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"Should the Blazers land in the tax , the taxpayer mid-level exception will be about $6.2 million. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don\u2019t make the problem worse. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Gabriela Bucher, the executive director of Oxfam International, told CNN Business at Davos this week that governments should tax wealth on the world's wealthiest people. \u2014 Ramishah Maruf, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"Government officials at both the state and federal levels have been trying for years to tax and spend their way to fiscal success. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Issue 4 was actually a charter amendment that would have raised the limit the city can tax property owners for fire department buildings, equipment and operations to 5.8 mills. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Some thriving and happy European countries, Switzerland and Belgium among them, do not normally tax capital gains at all. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Currently, there are nine states that don't tax wages, ranging from Florida to New Hampshire. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Tax-cut proposals are a direct effort to compete with states that don't tax earnings, including Texas, Florida and Tennessee \u2014 places to which many young Mississippians are moving for fatter paychecks. \u2014 Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Netflix doesn\u2019t want to dismantle password-sharing completely, only to tax the practice. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"an area with a large tax base",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is great for a diverse tax base and diverse population. \u2014 Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic , 6 July 2022",
"In many of Cook County\u2019s Southland communities, a moribund tax base and a dearth of jobs has contributed to a bleak economic outlook for those south suburbs. \u2014 The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"Community leaders complain that receivership does little to address the underlying inequities in Lawrence, Southbridge, and Holyoke, among the state\u2019s poorest cities, such as a weak tax base and entrenched poverty. \u2014 Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"But proponents say phasing it in over six years would ease that blow and eventually generate more revenue as people return to the city and grow the tax base . \u2014 Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun , 21 June 2022",
"Others did not want to talk about the companies that support the tax base and employ their friends and family. \u2014 Kathleen Flynn, ProPublica , 20 May 2022",
"The idea, Hill said, is to invest in a stagnant area and expand the tax base in the long run. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 May 2022",
"Governments must generate revenue: the two main options are increased borrowing or widening the tax base . \u2014 Ciku Kimeria, Quartz , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Another disingenuous argument is that taxing only realized gains narrows the tax base and requires higher tax rates on income. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The agency declined to answer questions about Hosang\u2019s case, citing taxpayer privacy laws. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 3 July 2022",
"The agency declined to answer questions about Mr. Hosang\u2019s case, citing taxpayer privacy laws. \u2014 New York Times , 3 July 2022",
"Then, the Warriors bolstered their wing depth by signing free-agent guard Donte DiVincenzo to two-year, $9.3 million contract, replacing Payton\u2019s rotation slot at a cheaper value and the cost of dipping deep into their taxpayer mid-level exception. \u2014 C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 July 2022",
"The Heat retain the right to bring back Tucker or Morris at 20 percent raises from last season\u2019s minimum-scale contracts or by utilizing all or part of the $6.5 million taxpayer mid-level exception on one or both of those two. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 1 July 2022",
"Milwaukee can split their taxpayer midlevel exception ($6.4 million) on multiple players if guys want more than veteran minimum contracts. \u2014 Brian Sampson, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"The museum, now complete and set to open to the public on Saturday, was financed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club\u2014Hong Kong\u2019s largest taxpayer and one of its largest charities, which also holds a monopoly on gambling licenses in the city. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"With Hoosiers currently receiving $125 through the automatic taxpayer refund, taxpayers will receive a total $350. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"The same is true with how aggressive the team is in using their big free-agency tool: the taxpayer mid-level exception. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022"
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"The decision was made to raise taxes .",
"He was accused of evading taxes .",
"What was your income before taxes ?",
"What is the amount of tax to be paid?",
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"Verb",
"He believes in taxing the rich to give to the poor.",
"You are taxed according to your income.",
"puzzles that tax your brain",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2014, Diehl helped lead a successful ballot campaign that repealed part of a 2013 law that created increases in the state gas tax tied to the rate of inflation. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 29 June 2022",
"With the price of a gallon of gas in the U.S. hovering around $5, President Joe Biden has attempted to take action by calling on Congress last week to enact a three-month pause on the federal gasoline tax . \u2014 Colin Lodewick, Fortune , 28 June 2022",
"Macron\u2019s government previously scrapped the housing tax as part of the same plan. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 28 June 2022",
"For a house valued at $1 million, the tax is $50 a year. \u2014 Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"The state tax is tied to inflation and set to increase Friday from around 36 cents to about 43 cents per gallon. \u2014 Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun , 27 June 2022",
"Last week, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days and encouraged state governments to suspend their own gas taxes. \u2014 Ben Ritz, Forbes , 27 June 2022",
"Now, eight months later, there has been little progress on changing national laws to implement the tax . \u2014 Paul Hannon, WSJ , 26 June 2022",
"Should the Blazers land in the tax , the taxpayer mid-level exception will be about $6.2 million. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Researchers are drilling down into the ways life on a hotter planet will tax our bodies, and looking for protections that, unlike air-conditioning, don\u2019t make the problem worse. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"Gabriela Bucher, the executive director of Oxfam International, told CNN Business at Davos this week that governments should tax wealth on the world's wealthiest people. \u2014 Ramishah Maruf, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"Government officials at both the state and federal levels have been trying for years to tax and spend their way to fiscal success. \u2014 Andrew Stuttaford, National Review , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Issue 4 was actually a charter amendment that would have raised the limit the city can tax property owners for fire department buildings, equipment and operations to 5.8 mills. \u2014 Bob Sandrick, cleveland , 10 May 2022",
"Some thriving and happy European countries, Switzerland and Belgium among them, do not normally tax capital gains at all. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Currently, there are nine states that don't tax wages, ranging from Florida to New Hampshire. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Tax-cut proposals are a direct effort to compete with states that don't tax earnings, including Texas, Florida and Tennessee \u2014 places to which many young Mississippians are moving for fatter paychecks. \u2014 Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc , 19 Feb. 2022",
"Netflix doesn\u2019t want to dismantle password-sharing completely, only to tax the practice. \u2014 Chris Smith, BGR , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters. \u2014 Craig Franklin, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Regner said conversations about policy are good but frank conversations about resources, feminist taxation and gender budgeting are also needed to result in tangible change. \u2014 Melissa Mahtani, CNN , 23 June 2022",
"Conservative commentator Dave Rubin says California will continue to lose residents if crime and taxation crises are not reversed at the ballot box. \u2014 Fox News , 7 June 2022",
"On gun control, climate change, taxation and pandemic safety mandates, Republicans have seemingly decided individual rights trump a collective, societal response, regardless of the cost. \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
"These are policies that have accelerated the exodus of New Yorkers to friendlier states with less punishing cultural and taxation climates. \u2014 WSJ , 18 May 2022",
"Beverly Moran, a professor and taxation expert at Vanderbilt University Law School, told lawmakers that Congress should introduce laws that allow authorities to more easily identify the owners of companies and trusts created in the United States. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Godfroy began his legal fight against taxation in the late 1800s. \u2014 Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star , 25 May 2022",
"In the decades after World War 2, the share of income enjoyed by the top 10% tumbled as progressive taxation redistributed money. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 7 Dec. 2021"
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"Earlier this year, a new regulation in Europe took effect that requires public companies with more than 500 employees to disclose what percentage of their operations fall under the European Union\u2019s green taxonomy . \u2014 Mark Maurer, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Scientists have been depicting migration as a destructive force since at least the 18th century, Shah writes, when the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus invented modern taxonomy . \u2014 Sophie Murguia, Outside Online , 30 July 2020",
"The key data elements\u2014currency, for example\u2014can be aligned to a data model or taxonomy . \u2014 Tom Davenport, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
"All scientific literature relating to the taxonomy of spiders has been accessible for free on the museum's website since 2014, per a statement. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Sargent's taxonomy is useful for analytical purposes, but the distinctions don't really hold up under scrutiny. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Part of this debate stems from the fact that scientists don\u2019t universally agree upon what counts as a species, per the Times, and dinosaur taxonomy is subjective. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Companies that have a real future focus on having a dynamic skills taxonomy will constantly update the team\u2019s skills, and in doing so, the employee experience. \u2014 Curtis Odom, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
"In 2020, the government also set up a task force to lay out a concrete road map to bolster India\u2019s sustainable finance architecture that inter alia includes the development of a taxonomy of sustainable activities. \u2014 Shreyans Jain, Quartz , 7 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The helicopter crashed on the taxiway , adjacent to the runway, Kirk said. \u2014 Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com , 23 May 2022",
"The pilot announced that there was a lengthy line of planes on the taxiway ahead of us. \u2014 Michael Goldstein, Forbes , 7 May 2022",
"The runway and taxiway reconstruction project is projected to create about 2,700 jobs, Rodriguez said. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The reconstruction is part of a $73 million project to rebuild and electrify the runway and a taxiway with LED lighting, according to the airport authority's 2022 capital improvement budget. \u2014 Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Smoky\u2019s work saved approximately 250 ground crewmen from having to move around 40 U.S. fighters and reconnaissance planes, while a construction detail dug up the taxiway . \u2014 Brenda Cain, cleveland , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Delta said the plane\u2019s nose gear exited the taxiway after landing at the North Carolina airport. \u2014 Phil Helsel, NBC News , 22 Jan. 2022",
"After just 15 minutes in the air, the plane lands at Westray Airport, a windswept outpost consisting of a small building, a gravel airstrip and an asphalted taxiway . \u2014 Barry Neild, CNN , 7 Jan. 2022",
"News reports showed dozens of people lined up against a wall near a taxiway . \u2014 NBC News , 29 Oct. 2021"
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"The two Secret Service employees had gone out to a dinner with a larger group and then went barhopping afterward before returning to their hotel in a taxi , the official said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"The two Secret Service employees had gone out to a dinner with a larger group and then went barhopping afterward before returning to their hotel in a taxi , the official said. \u2014 Peter Hermann And Min Joo Kim, Anchorage Daily News , 20 May 2022",
"Khial Mohammad Sultani, who the day before Ramadan was still living in an extended stay motel on the outskirts of El Paso, Texas, had to ride nearly 80 miles round trip into New Mexico in a taxi to go buy and slaughter a lamb for Ramadan. \u2014 Giovanna Dell'orto And Mariam Fam, The Christian Science Monitor , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Taliban officials have also issued new restrictions on women, including a ban on traveling farther than 45 miles in a taxi unless they are accompanied by a male chaperone. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Mar. 2022",
"That's slashing it from at least an hour on the current underground system or about double that in a taxi , even in normal levels of traffic. \u2014 Ben Jones, CNN , 22 Mar. 2022",
"As of March 1, District residents will need to cover up in order to attend school, go to a library, or ride in a taxi . \u2014 Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Then, there's the risk of forgetting equipment on the subway or in a taxi . \u2014 Kevin Korte, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"British police are investigating an explosion in a taxi outside a hospital, which killed one person. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 16 Nov. 2021",
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"The four crew members -- three paying passengers and a former NASA astronaut there to serve as commander -- taking part in the mission, dubbed Ax-1, will taxi to the ISS via SpaceX vehicles as part of the 10-day trip. \u2014 Catherine Thorbecke, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022",
"After that, aircraft will be able to taxi underneath the western skybridge, adding two extra miles of taxiway space to the airport. \u2014 Laura Ly, CNN , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Everybody at Uber/Lyft will have to taxi once a month. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"That gives it some mobility, but limits its ability to taxi around the ground. \u2014 J. George Gorant, Robb Report , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Indians use the fintech service to pay for a wide range of goods and services, from groceries to taxi fares to airline tickets. \u2014 Biman Mukherji, Fortune , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Only one engine was used to taxi along the runway for takeoff. \u2014 Eve Chen, USA TODAY , 16 Sep. 2021",
"Before that, the Internet established new networks of information which transformed daily activities from product shopping to business meetings to even taxi summoning. \u2014 Steve Tengler, Forbes , 8 Sep. 2021",
"Avery Lalor can taxi an airplane, take off, run radio communications, and navigate the skies using an aircraft\u2019s GPS system. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 13 July 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"At a taxi stand by a bustling market in Kampala, Uganda\u2019s capital, traders simply cross a road or two, get a shot in the arm and rush back to their work. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Sep. 2021",
"At a taxi stand by a bustling market in Kampala, Uganda's capital, traders simply cross a road or two, get a shot in the arm and rush back to their work. \u2014 Rodney Muhumuza, ajc , 11 Sep. 2021",
"Wang eventually snagged one of the taxis trickling in every five minutes, leaving behind some two dozen other passengers, stranded in the fluorescent glow of the vacant taxi stand . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 29 May 2021",
"The canine spent the first two years of his life as a guard dog for a taxi stand owner in the Philippines. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 31 Mar. 2021",
"There is also a taxi stand at Lower Main Street/South Water Street and another at Main Street/Washington Street. \u2014 Maya Kachroo-levine, Travel + Leisure , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Bike storage, bus stops, and taxi stands will move. \u2014 Tim Logan, BostonGlobe.com , 11 Jan. 2020",
"Another taxi stand will be put back into service for travelers passing through Terminals 7 and 8. \u2014 USA TODAY , 9 Mar. 2020",
"Temporary taxi stands will be available at the east side of Third Street between Howard and Minna streets and south side of Howard Street between Fourth and Fifth streets. \u2014 Roland Li, SFChronicle.com , 14 Nov. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer , someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer , someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer , someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer , someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 18 Feb. 2020",
"Her father, Edgar, was a plumber, and her mother, Zoe (Hivon) Caldwell, was a taxi dancer , someone from whom dance-hall customers could buy a dance. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com , 19 Feb. 2020",
"Learning out about absinthe and beret wearing taxi dancers from Lost Generation artist wanderers still able to climb the hill of Montmarte up to Le Chat Noir. \u2014 Dp Opinion, The Denver Post , 17 Nov. 2019"
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"The taxi version also features a single display that integrates navigation, the taximeter , and other important data, such as charging station locations. \u2014 Caleb Miller, Car and Driver , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"Before the pandemic, the non- taxpaying cohort had actually shrunk a little, to the low to mid-40s. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 6 May 2022",
"Bobby Marks has projected as a $13 million payout to each non- taxpaying team. \u2014 Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com , 14 Aug. 2021",
"Golden State could pay $30 million less in luxury taxes as non- taxpaying teams also see a decrease in revenue sharing. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 16 Dec. 2020",
"By comparison, the U.S. is giving most taxpaying Americans $1,200. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 20 Apr. 2020",
"Harvard\u2019s Jason Furman, who was a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama Administration, has proposed making a one-time payment of a thousand dollars to every taxpaying U.S. resident and five hundred dollars to each child. \u2014 John Cassidy, The New Yorker , 14 Mar. 2020",
"California famously adopts tax increases that affect 49% or less of the taxpaying population while benefiting the remaining 51%. \u2014 WSJ , 9 Feb. 2020",
"The result would split the bill among many more taxpaying entities, dropping prices for residents of 1-to-4 unit buildings. \u2014 Frederick Melo, Twin Cities , 5 Oct. 2019",
"Couple this with the inefficiency of the courts causing trials to be frequently delayed and to go on for years, the legal system has become a tremendous burden to Americans, especially the taxpaying middle class. \u2014 WSJ , 1 Oct. 2017"
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"In 2019, the federal prosecutor urged the court to order Deveny to preserve the approximately dozen guns found in her house and exotic taxidermy heads of animals, including a giraffe, zebra, and lion, but dispose of any ammunition in the home. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
"There is no dust\u2014dust is the enemy of good taxidermy . \u2014 Alex Heard, Outside Online , 11 Aug. 2020",
"Housing collectibles that range from a WWI propeller to taxidermy insects, there are countless stories to be told and the staff are more than happy to share them. \u2014 Christina Liao, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The man claims most of the taxidermy animals came from his father, per Las Provincias. \u2014 Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Distinctive elements: Italian writing desk; taxidermy animals; hide over rug; antiqued mirror map art. \u2014 Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Jackalopes are the result of a happy accident \u2014 not of nature but of two young brothers in Wyoming trying out their taxidermy skills on some recent kills in the 1930s. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"From the brothers\u2019 twin bedroom to the dark parlor with its heavy furniture and taxidermy , the interiors reflect the men\u2019s stunted, lonely psyches. \u2014 Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Lush greenery protrudes from behind the bar and a taxidermy hog's head, complete with tusks, lures over the space. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 10 Dec. 2021"
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