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Mission Local ^ | MAY 10, 2023 | by JOE RIVANO BARROS

[dfwgator]

Mrs. Cleaver speaks Jive.

[jjotto]

What about ‘sanction’?

[null and void]

Dust.

If you dust furniture, you are removing small particulates from the surfaces.

If you dust for fingerprints, you are adding small particulates to the surfaces.

[goldbux]

"What about sanction?"
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Yes. It can be a noun or a verb.

Legally, it's both:
1.) a "provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience, or a reward for obedience"
2.) "the penalty or reward."

You could argue – lawyers love to argue, & say "moot" – that it's unambiguously a provision, but with two opposing effects. That's hairsplitting.

Let's consider sanction to be a quantum noun/verb with two possible opposite effects, depending on the context.

Thank you for that example.

[goldbux]

"Dust"
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Yes. Hadn't thought of that.
Another good noun/verb quantum example. Thanks!