How to Use codicil in a Sentence
codicil
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Racism wasn't out front; people regulated it through the codicils on their homes.
—Ash Carter, Town & Country, 2016-06-29
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Esper said, revealing for the first time the existence of the codicils to the agreement.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 2020-03-06
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Revoking a clause in a will and substituting a new clause is generally done by codicil.
—Donna Engle, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2021-04-25
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In 1990 Donald secretly enlisted a lawyer to draft a codicil to the will of his father, Fred Sr.
—Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 2020-09-24
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After that, Bell Pottinger tried to find middle ground by signing a new contract with the Guptas, this time with a codicil literally called an anti-embarrassment clause.
—David Segal, New York Times, 2018-02-04
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