How to Use the court of public/world opinion in a Sentence
the court of public/world opinion
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Both sides have taken a hit in the court of public opinion in the last few years.
—Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Southwest paid dearly for its sins, and not just in the court of public opinion.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Lamar was declared the victor in the court of public opinion.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
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Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
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But dragging him through the court of public opinion like that doesn’t get me anywhere.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 10 July 2025
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Yet in the court of public opinion, those didn’t really count.
—Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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The cable-news blitz had been a bid to head off the indictment in the court of public opinion.
—Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
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But what’s going on in the court of public opinion is disgusting.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
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Still, Combs lost in the court of public opinion, the attorney added.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
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Some are still fighting in the court of public opinion, however.
—Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
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That is, one dash cam clip is not—or shouldn’t be—enough to render a verdict in the court of public opinion on all who serve.
—Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
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The rebuke in the court of public opinion and on Capitol Hill was sharp.
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
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Drake’s taken the Kendrick beef from the court of public opinion to actual court.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
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There’s no doubt that the WGA has the upper hand in the court of public opinion.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
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But, in the court of public opinion, the entire country is divided.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
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Both Drake and Lively have taken a beating in the court of public opinion.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
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And in the court of public opinion, Statoil would be judged in the future for destroying them now.
—Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
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For out there in the courts, and in the court of public opinion, the unchecked maltreatment from rich and famous men remains too much to bear.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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In the court of public opinion, acolytes of great architects are rarely treated as legends themselves.
—David Sokol, Architectural Digest, 23 May 2025
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But jurists need to focus on their courtrooms, not the court of public opinion, Holmes noted.
—Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
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That kind of argument is probably not going to hold water in the court of public opinion.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
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Coach Shah is maintaining his innocence in the court of public opinion.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Giants’ bottom line needs it — in the wins column, in the dollars and cents column and in the court of public opinion.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
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The legal profession has been put on trial in real-time, public view, and before the court of public opinion.
—Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Time will tell if the New York and California courts will hold more sway than the court of public opinion.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
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In the court of public opinion, Jennifer Crumbley is a damned woman.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
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There are a couple of problems here, the first being that this is by no means admissible in either the court of law or the court of public opinion.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
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Whether or not Tuberville’s blockade was actually a factor, he could well get blamed in the court of public opinion.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
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The beauty of college basketball is that the champion is decided on the court, rather than the court of public opinion.
—Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
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