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There's a loophole in the law.loophole = a gap in a law, allowing avoidance of the law's core intent
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When income taxes were cut, loopholes were also closed.loopholes = exceptions to obligations
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Now they were trying to seize control of GSS by exploiting a loophole in Halliday's will. (source)loophole = a gap in a contract, allowing avoidance of the contract's core intent
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"Arthur Weasley, you made sure there was a loophole when you wrote that law!" shouted Mrs. Weasley. (source)loophole = something left out of the text that makes it possible to evade a difficulty
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His freedom wouldn't be based on some tricky legal loophole or the exploitation of a technicality. (source)loophole = a gap in a law, allowing avoidance of the law's core intent
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—but I got a clipped, cold no. A no without loopholes. (source)loopholes = exceptions
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I rest my head against the headrest and close my eyes, attempting to conjure up a loophole in our situation. (source)loophole = something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
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I decided to carefully read all the literature about the program, looking for loopholes.† (source)loopholes = gaps in rules, allowing avoidance of the core intent of the rules
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Well, on the knoll, and enclosing the spring, they had clapped a stout loghouse fit to hold two score of people on a pinch and loopholed for musketry on either side.† (source)
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It's not commonly known—Father says it's some odd loophole in Empire law. (source)loophole = a gap in a law, allowing avoidance of the law's core intent
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After Comrade Pillai left, Inspector Thomas Mathew went over their conversation in his mind, teasing it, testing its logic, looking for loopholes.† (source)loopholes = gaps in rules, allowing avoidance of the core intent of the rules
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The other bank of the stream was open ground—a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.† (source)
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School dances were the loophole to PDA rules. (source)loophole = a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent
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Hell, I don't know—so he can tell his partners at lunch that he pointed out a few loopholes to those hotshot lawyers up on eight.† (source)loopholes = gaps in rules, allowing avoidance of the core intent of the rules
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And how did he keep finding these loophole openings?† (source)loophole = a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent
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I frowned, my mind racing, looking for loopholes.† (source)loopholes = gaps in rules, allowing avoidance of the core intent of the rules
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The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.
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loopholes = small openings in castles that provides light and air, and allow an arrow to be fired from within, though the openings are narrow enough that they are largely protected from incoming arrows
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