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laws

  • plural
    of law.
    law
    noun
    the principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.

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States often change laws and rules related to voting.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

The research, published in Physical Review D under the title "When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies," examines the physical laws that keep black holes intact and whether certain circumstances could allow them to break apart.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

To date, D.C. and eight states have passed laws allowing the devices for problem speeders, with rollouts planned from Hawaii to Georgia over the next couple of years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Tougher laws were needed to ensure targets were met, it said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

These early equation-laws were extremely good at expressing simple relationships, but equations have limitations—their constancy, which prevented them from being universal laws.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife