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to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
the judge revoked the jail sentence when the defendant promised to do community service instead
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Recent Examples of revoked
Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
According to state law, permits are immediately revoked if a restaurant receives a score of less than 70%.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
However, the rapper’s bond was revoked in August 2022.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
In total, California issued 20,100 non-domiciled CDLs that needed to be revoked, Barrs said.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
Colbert was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Orleans Parish in May, after a judge revoked her probation in a similar but unrelated case.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2026
Several times during the hearing, Helland asserted that student activists who had their visas revoked were targeted not just for speech but for alleged links to violent groups or for allegedly being disruptive on campus.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
New York City Councilmember Inna Vernikov said in social media posts that the antisemitism definition revoked by Mamdani is recognized by 40 nations, including the European Union, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and Germany.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Prosecutors have since petitioned to have his probation revoked.
—Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
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In court, an assistant state attorney said McCoy never should have been driving, telling the judge that his license was revoked as a habitual traffic offender.
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Years later, the series was set for a revival, but it was abruptly canceled due to creative differences.—
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The number of flights canceled at Cincinnati's major airport has more than doubled on Sunday amid flight reductions at airports nationwide due to the government shutdown.—
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Throughout the history of gold panning, workers had never been abandoned in remote or forgotten areas of the jungle.—
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The buildings were abandoned as the public school system grew more welcoming of Black students, and many of the sites have been lost, historians say.—
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Transparency instead of testing Where the vetoed SB 1047 would have mandated safety testing and kill switches for AI systems, the new law focuses on disclosure.—
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As more ocean carriers appear to show an openness to returning to the Red Sea on a limited basis, Maersk reportedly scrapped a long-time fee last month for one of its container vessels that transited the Suez Canal.—
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The Blue Bag program went ahead despite being savaged by critics for years throughout its planning stages, and was not considered a success when it was scrapped more than a dozen years later for the city's current blue cart program.—
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The European countries that repealed their wealth taxes did so for varied reasons.—
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In 2020, voters repealed the Gallagher Amendment in the state constitution, which locked in a certain ratio of residential to commercial property taxes that provided extra security for homeowners against sudden increases.—
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That's when a 51-year-old woman driving a Tesla south on Highway 85 struck the Focus, causing both cars to spin and crash into a stopped semi-truck.—
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The Dating Game, directed by Violet Du Feng, shows us the struggle of young men to find spouses in a country where males outnumber females by a large margin (a result of China’s one-child policy, which saw many female offspring aborted or abandoned in favor of male children).—
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The leader of an international pro-life organization lauded the Nativity scene set up by the Vatican that highlighted the more than 25,000 babies who were not aborted this year thanks to the group's outreach initiatives.—
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In The Way to Colonos, the horror that emerges is more suppressed and internal than in the ancient texts.—
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Too long submerged in suppressed grief, Zilpha now came up from its depth like any swimmer stroking toward light and sweet air.—
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“Revoked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revoked. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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