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statutory

adjective

Definition of statutory

as in constitutional

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Recent Examples of statutory Because of statutory age limits, the boy could not be charged, leaving the tragedy to serve as a stark reminder of the urgent need for responsible gun storage and child access prevention laws. — Brittany Berlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026 With an inventory of roughly 293 million barrels, only about 41 million barrels remain before hitting the 252 million-barrel statutory limit. — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 The statutory floor remains Tk 12,500, though eligible garment workers have also received a 9 percent annual wage increment since December 2024. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026 The decision echoes those seen in several former Soviet republics, including Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where leaders have used new or amended constitutions to revise statutory term limits. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for statutory

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Ken Paxton is a strong conservative who is going to fight for low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs, to secure the border, to support law enforcement, to protect our constitutional rights.

— NBC news, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
That is because the ruling was technical, and not based on the constitutionality of the president’s order, said Leslie Gielow Jacobs, a constitutional scholar at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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Potassium is a mineral your body needs for proper heart and muscle function.

— Zia Sherrell, HEALTH, 31 Aug. 2026
Bailey, who also serves as Bank of England governor, warned about the absence of proper guardrails around the technology, underscored by recent incidents in which frontier AI models being tested went rogue.

— Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026

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