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the right to act or move freely
the new laws gave the police more latitude in dealing with suspected criminals
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Recent Examples of latitude
When the winds cross the latitude lines at a sharp angle, the wind pattern is termed meridional.
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Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The bill gives wide latitude to the president to delay its enforcement if there’s progress being made towards a deal that ensures TikTok isn’t fully controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
—Alex Heath, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2024
In the early 1970s, Congress attempted to rein in the presidency by passing legislation to limit the president's latitude for unilateral military action and compel the president to provide greater transparency regarding executive budgetary practices.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Still, federal labor law affords wide latitude for a company to delay a collective bargaining agreement and lacks the large penalties necessary to compel an agreement, granting Starbucks sizable leverage over the next step in the labor dispute, Bodie added.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The bill gives wide latitude to the president to delay its enforcement if there’s progress being made towards a deal that ensures TikTok isn’t fully controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
—Alex Heath, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2024
In the early 1970s, Congress attempted to rein in the presidency by passing legislation to limit the president's latitude for unilateral military action and compel the president to provide greater transparency regarding executive budgetary practices.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Still, federal labor law affords wide latitude for a company to delay a collective bargaining agreement and lacks the large penalties necessary to compel an agreement, granting Starbucks sizable leverage over the next step in the labor dispute, Bodie added.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latitude
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But one of the convicts used the slack security measures during rehearsals to plan a bank robbery, which ended up in the murder of two police officers, known as the infamous Malexander shootings of 1999.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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Hansi Flick's men went 1-0 down in under two minutes at the Estadio da Luz with Vangelis Pavlidis capitalising on slack defending.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Relevance: Marketing campaigns should align with cultural values, such as personal choice, freedom and health pragmatism, to resonate with the U.S. audience.—
Markus Lindblad,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Read: The GoFundMe fires In moments of tragedy or upheaval, not all Angelenos can take their freedom of mobility for granted, in part because of how Southern California infrastructure has developed over the past century.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Supreme Court in a 2014 decision gave the executive branch broad leeway to fill executive branch vacancies when the Senate is not in session, even for political purposes such as difficulty securing Senate confirmation.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2025
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These products now all stand to cost consumers more, especially since grocers and farmers tend to operate on very low profit margin compared to other industries, giving them little leeway to absorb higher tariffs costs, and instead will pass it down to consumers, said Lovely.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
21 Jan. 2025
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Mexicans remain by far the largest group of people living in the country without authorization, but their share has declined significantly since the 1990s, according to data from the Pew Research Center.—
Allison McCann,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Most people found to be in the country without authorization get a date in immigration court, where a resolution can take years.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Jan. 2025
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Lastly, for businesses, the program can help in maintaining good standing with regulatory authorities, which is crucial for operational continuity and reputation management.—
Jessica Ledingham, J.D., LL.M.,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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In the past decade, the agency lost most of its agents in the country after they were discovered by Chinese authorities.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Latitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latitude. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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