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  • noun Plural form of loophole.

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Examples

  • WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what they call loopholes ...

    Les Leopold: Barkin' Barney Frank: Where's the Bite? 2009

  • WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what they call loopholes ...

    Dean Baker: The House Financial Reform Bill: Don't Touch the Banks, Get a Smarter Fed 2009

  • Between RPGs hitting and mortars hitting and rounds hitting what we call loopholes, and after a lot of the firefights, you look outside your loophole and you'd see the jackets of the rounds still stuck on the wall, and you pull them out.

    CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2005 2005

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • Republicans and reform groups protested what they called loopholes that would allow major campaign players to spend a lot of money on campaigns, despite the limits.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2009

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

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