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noun

amendment

the act of amending or correcting

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Six example sentences with amendment, each labelled with its topic.

  • The amendment struck two words from the bill, and that small correction changed which counties the funding reached.

    Politics

  • An amendment to the lease fixed the parking clause the two sides had misread for three straight years.

    Business

  • A single amendment to the town charter corrected a numbering error that had voided two earlier elections.

    History

  • The judge allowed an amendment to the complaint, fixing a wrong date before the trial went ahead.

    Law

  • The investors requested an amendment to the term sheet that corrected the share count from the earlier draft.

    Startups

  • The journal printed a brief amendment correcting one misplaced decimal, and the paper's conclusion stood unchanged.

    Science

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