Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co., 367 U.S. 303 (1961), was a U.S. Supreme Court case.

The Court noted that noscitur a sociis is not an inescapable rule.

It further noted that the maxim is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings.

The reason that it is applied in the case of many meanings is that it avoids giving unintended breadth to Acts of Congress.

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