How to Use exemption in a Sentence

exemption

noun
  • You can claim a tax exemption for each of your dependents.
  • They were granted exemptions from military service.
  • Religious groups can continue seeking legal exemptions for their use of psychedelics as sacraments.
    Oshan Jarow, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • With the gift and estate exemption amount scheduled to expire at the end of next year, many wealthy investors are working to give away the maximum before the expiration.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The exemption amount is based on the veteran’s disability percentage.
    Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The House version, which many Democrats preferred, didn’t include Guarino’s exemption.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Officials warn of influx if order is lifted Mr. Biden's asylum order contains some exemptions.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Some progressive councilors wanted a stricter policy, either with a lower cap on allowable rent hikes or a shorter exemption period for new construction.
    Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But to justify their tax exemption, the focus should be on programs that address specific community health needs, not on spending for the general good, for which they are already being paid.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In 2017, the Supreme Court struck down the exemption law.
    Harriet Marsden, theweek, 3 July 2024
  • The most recent Supreme Court case to address the exemption is the 1972 case Flood v. Kuhn.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The law contains an exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a stand-alone item.
    Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
    Todd Richmond, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The exemptions are narrow, critics say, and the penalties are harsh.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The exemptions are expected to cost the state $1 million or less.
    Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
  • In extreme cases, the I.R.S. could revoke the group’s tax exemption.
    David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • How this exemption for small farms plays out looks different in the country’s dairy states.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2023
  • How and why those exemptions were granted was not defined.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
  • Playing on a sponsor’s exemption, Sargent is set to tee off in the first round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic at 1:11 p.m.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 28 June 2023
  • That exemption, the court found, favored in-state sellers over those out-of-state—a distinction that isn't allowed.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Resentment of their exemption has grown as Israeli soldiers fight the war in Gaza.
    Hannah Jewell, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The winner will receive an exemption into the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge.
    Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • The FedEx Cup champion also gets a five-year exemption.
    Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • What happened with Panera and the bread-making exemption?
    Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But Bee reporters found in 2023 that few families were using the exemption.
    Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In 1935, Babe Didrikson Zaharias was the first woman to receive a sponsor exemption.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But another appeals court in Cincinnati in 2021 ruled that the exemption does not apply to tire chalking.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Florida outbreak comes at a time when the number of national vaccine exemptions has reached an all-time high.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Larsson was signed to a three-year contract, utilizing what the NBA terms the second-round exemption, with a $1.2 million salary for the coming season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2024
  • The others are private or are covered under a state exemption.
    Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023

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