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  2. What does it mean to commute an execution? Here's what to ...

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    The president's power to issue a pardon or commute a sentence applies only to federal offenses. Therefore, prisoners sentenced to death by their states are not affected by Biden's move.

  3. Commutation (law) - Wikipedia

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    In law, a commutation is the substitution of a lesser penalty for that given after a conviction for a crime. The penalty can be lessened in severity, in duration, or both. Unlike most pardons by government and overturning by the court (a full overturning is equal to an acquittal), a commutation does not affect the status of a defendant's underlying criminal convicti

  4. Commutative property - Wikipedia

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    Commutative is the feminine form of the French adjective commutatif, which is derived from the French noun commutation and the French verb commuter, meaning "to exchange" or "to switch", a cognate of to commute. The term then appeared in English in 1838.

  5. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    "Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword setters. However, some abbreviations may be found in other dictionaries, such as the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary.

  6. Commute - Wikipedia

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    Commute, commutation or commutative may refer to: Commuting, the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work; Mathematics.

  7. Commuting to work in the US: facts and statistics - AOL

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    For many Americans, commuting to work is part of their everyday life. The most recent data show the average American commuter spends around 25.6 minutes on the way to work each day.

  8. Zooming (writing skill) - Wikipedia

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    Zooming is a writing skill, as outlined in secondary education, [1] that gives the reader the feeling of moving through space towards or away from a character or object, especially used in descriptive writing. It can be divided into two types: zooming in and zooming out.

  9. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Use sp: Spelling: Used to indicate misspelling spo: Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged fl: Flush left: Align text flush with left margin fr: Flush right: Align text flush with right ...