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the ability to make intelligent decisions especially in everyday matters you should have exercised greater policy in your online relationships and not divulged so much personal information
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Recent Examples of policy This is not how federal grant policy is supposed to work. —
Monique B. Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 Read more on our AI policy here. —Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026 The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has installed new leadership with veteran business and policy executive Ron Frierson signing on as president and CEO. —William Earl, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026 At stake is more than a narrow policy dispute. —Jeffrey S. Trimbath, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for policy
Monique B. Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 Read more on our AI policy here. —Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026 The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has installed new leadership with veteran business and policy executive Ron Frierson signing on as president and CEO. —William Earl, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026 At stake is more than a narrow policy dispute. —Jeffrey S. Trimbath, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for policy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for policy
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Walker, however, agreed with the majority that the president cannot deport migrants to countries where they will be persecuted or strip them of mandatory procedures that protect against their removal.— Michael Kunzelman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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Under standard procedure, those who filed a claim against Purdue with the bankruptcy court in the first round — including cities, hospitals and individual opioid victims — were entitled to vote on the new bankruptcy plan.— Craig R. McCoy, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
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By all accounts, being a milquetoast is a sort of vice—cowardice masquerading as prudence.— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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China by contrast is beginning to look like a model of prudence and responsibility.— Anatol Lieven, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
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Millions of Americans are turning to AI chatbots for help with their finances, asking about budgets, debt payoff plans, retirement strategies and investment options.— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2026
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So no matter what, the strategy is to save enough gas to take as little as possible on the final pit stop of the day.— Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
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The findings challenge received wisdom about the role of soft-bodied organisms in marine ecosystems and hint at how large body size and intelligence evolved in the denizens of the ocean realm.— Kate Wong, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2026
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In other words, these programs offer actresses real opportunities as well as scenes in which they’re seated at their dressing tables putting on diamond earrings while coping with a situation involving a DNA test.— Libby Gelman-Waxner, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
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It’s been only three months since the last SpaceX launch of a GPS satellite, said Anne Mason, SpaceX’s director of its National Security Space Launch program.— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
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The story is something of a palimpsest, with Romvari’s own perspective intertwining with the character’s and conveying a sense of being both inside and outside the action.— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
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What’s left is a false sense of urgency that will lead to a budget finalized mostly in the dark, with too many decisions made by staffers and lobbyists.— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
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The world of mind readers would be, of course, a world without hypocrisy but also one without discretion.— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Typically zoning boards have wide discretion, but in the interest of beefing up Connecticut’s affordable housing inventory the 8-30g law requires communities to prove a significant threat to public health or safety.— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Policy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/policy. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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