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latitudes

noun

plural of latitude

as in authorizations

the right to act or move freely the new laws gave the police more latitude in dealing with suspected criminals

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Recent Examples of latitudes Eventually, 2,000 years ago, temperatures dropped far enough due to lower sunlight in the high latitudes, and the effects of carbon dioxide weren’t high enough, so ice sheets started to re-expand. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026 From mid-northern latitudes, Cassiopeia is high and prominent during autumn, on the opposite side of Polaris from the Big Dipper. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The best chance to catch a glimpse of the auroras is at high northern latitudes, including Alaska and far northern Canada, under clear, dark skies. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 Oct. 2026 The weather determines everything in these southerly latitudes of Patagonia. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026 At other times of the year low-orbit satellites are visible only after sunset or before sunrise, especially from lower latitudes. — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 The storm produced strong changes in Earth’s magnetic environment and pushed auroras to unusually low latitudes. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026 But in latitudes like Northern Europe, there are times of the year when there is little or even no sunlight for long periods of time. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026 The time points to the moment when the Earth tilts equally toward and away from the Sun and brings nearly equal amounts of daylight to all latitudes. — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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Prior to the first Certificate of Occupancy, the applicant will be required to obtain all required permits, approvals, and authorizations from the Florida Department of Transportation for improvements impacting Sunrise Boulevard.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
General guidance from the federal government states that HIPAA authorizations do not need to be notarized.

— Alex Rosenblat — CalMatters, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026

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In an onstage conversation with the endowment’s CEO, Damon Wilson, Díaz-Balart said Americans can take for granted freedoms other societies have lost.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
The idea is that voting is not the only way to drive change; demonstration is considered a bedrock value, a way to make elites hear the populace and to defend freedoms.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of freedoms

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Seabright found that the revision made no meaningful difference because those powers could not have been delegated to Essayli in the first place.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
By leading Philip into believing Arbella was marrying the son of his ally, the Duke of Parma, Protestant England could drive a wedge between two Continental Catholic powers.

— Eva Wolchover, Vanity Fair, 27 Oct. 2026

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