building permit
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A contractor who offers to do the job without a building permit is a red flag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
The crowd included a practicing cardiologist from Belgium who had built an app to help patients navigate care, and a California lawyer who made a tool for automating building permit approvals using Claude Code.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
The foundations are for a hotel extension that attracted so much controversy last year that the country's top administrative court ended up temporarily blocking its building permit.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
On Holdorff Polhill’s block of Iliff Street, the rebuilding process was underway for nine out of 27 destroyed homes as of early December, according to a Times analysis of Los Angeles city building permit records.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
And finally now, just when he’d mastered the parking patterns at City Hall — he even knew which meters were jammed, so he could park free — he had his building permit.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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