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amnesty

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"Official pardon"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈæm.nɪ.sti/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aemnstyStarts with AEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. grant a pardon to (a group of people)

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía).

Used in a sentence

  • He said building amnesties were “a huge issue.”
  • “100 miles of border wall in exchange for amnestying millions of illegals. So if we grant citizenship to a BILLION foreigners, maybe we can finally get a full border wall,” Coulter wrote in another tweet.
  • “The number of people that will be amnestied when I’m president is zero,” DeSantis said, when asked if he would allow any of the 10 million to stay in the US.

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