The grandfathering of boundaries has been, on average, a pacifying development […]
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Grandfathering
Synonyms for "grandfathering" (86 found)
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And on Monday, an appeals court in Massachusetts said that it would no longer use the term “grandfathering” because “it has racist origins.”
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