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Dozens have repealed them; 15 in 2022 alone.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Other former British colonies have repealed similar legislation, including India in 2018 and Fiji in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2022

That is the principle that when an earlier act of Parliament conflicts with a more recent one, the later law is considered to have repealed the earlier one by implication.

From BBC • May 14, 2021

Given the problems that the current law causes for young people, lawmakers might have repealed the practice immediately.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2019

If you would know what this varied oppression consisted in, I refer you to the Penal Statutes you have repealed, and to some of those which still exist.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas