How to Use jurist in a Sentence

jurist

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  • The artist and the jurist This is a dress rehearsal of sorts.
    — Grace Ashford Cindy Schultz, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Smart jurist did not make more clear what the deal was here.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • But the jurist was hard-pressed to dismiss the complaint.
    — Lomi Kriel, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The jurists who run it, are passionate about the court.
    — Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The jurist could do nothing, as the girl's parents had asked.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 May 2018
  • In the area of contraception, the two jurists have not been far apart.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes is here, the great jurist and fighter for the right.
    — Pioneer Press Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 28 May 2017
  • Since Koh took Whyte’s seat, the two jurists have built up a camaraderie.
    — Davey Alba, Wired News, 21 Apr. 2015
  • In states that elect jurists, groups close to him spent millions of dollars to place his allies on the bench.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And some experts say jurists are not always well equipped to do so.
    — Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Those jurists needed to decide the right cases, brought by the right lawyers and heard by the right lower court judges.
    — Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The jurist disclosed his new rate card in a mass e-mail sent to more than a hundred super-donors.
    — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The jurist for the show is a former teacher and award winning artist Neil Connell.
    — Courant Community, 24 Apr. 2018
  • A number of sharp questions have already emerged about the 51-year-old jurist.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The court praised Halgren’s skill and commitment as a jurist.
    — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Even under a new, stricter test for gun laws set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court last year, the jurists found, the state is likely to win its appeal.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • As chief judge of the court of appeals, Neubauer is the highest-ranking jurist in Wisconsin who is not on the Supreme Court.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2018
  • But for his detractors his loss of his career as a jurist was not enough.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • White’s statue — along with a second larger-than-life sculpture of the long-dead jurist in the U.S. Capitol — may soon be on the move again.
    — Bryn Stole | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 22 Aug. 2020
  • On a bright April day at the White House, a Black woman jurist spoke to her own hopes and dreams of ascending to the nation’s highest court.
    — Donna M. Owens, Essence, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Breyer, at 82, is the oldest jurist on the court and the most senior member of its liberal wing.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 28 May 2021
  • Later Friday, the late jurist’s casket will depart the Capitol on the steps facing the Supreme Court.
    — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The court is now two members short and will be down three when the European jurist steps down in December.
    — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Ward does not view Schroeder as a jurist who is favorable to the rights of defendants.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • This guy has a storied career as a jurist on the federal court of appeal.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Would-be candidates have to pass muster with the Guardian Council, a body of jurists appointed by Khameni.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • Holmes had been his friend, mentor, and hero, and Frankfurter seldom tired of invoking the great jurist.
    — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The 54-year-old jurist is vaccinated and has no symptoms, the court said Friday.
    — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • As a trio of jurists explained in a paper earlier this year, such a move could in theory be challenged by the attorney general of Delaware, where OpenAI is domiciled.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The closest thing to an argument for it is that, if cases are randomly assigned, occasionally, when a relevant case arises, a jurist will be forced to travel a substantial distance.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 12 June 2024

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