IRS
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Internal Revenue Service
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insulin resistance syndrome: a condition associated with diabetes mellitus in which higher than normal levels of insulin are present in the blood to compensate for the failure of normal insulin levels to perform their function
Example Sentences
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District Judge Kathleen M. Williams wrote in an order, released on Monday, breaking down the culmination of Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
In other cases about the same leak, the U.S. argued that it couldn’t be sued because Littlejohn worked for contracting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and thus wasn’t an IRS employee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He filed it just shy of two years after receiving a formal IRS notification about the leak but more than two years after Littlejohn’s guilty plea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
If you are withholding too much money, it makes sense to reduce that amount so you put that money in your back pocket in lieu of having it languish in IRS coffers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle- class grind.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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