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Recent Examples of defamation Gardner also maintained the speech was opinion, which cannot give rise to a viable defamation claim. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 Trump has also filed defamation lawsuits against The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and successfully urged Congress to strip federal funding from NPR and PBS. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025 Let our cool movie play at Toronto and stop messing about with a rubbish defamation suit against me! Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025 The director later tried to sue the actress for defamation, but a judge dismissed the case; Lively’s original lawsuit will head to trial in 2026. Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for defamation
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libel
Noun
  • Apart from the libel suits, which the President can add teeth to by threatening regulatory sanctions or by slow-walking mergers and other business deals that require government approval, this is the persecution of people and organizations based on point of view.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Ressa knows a thing or two about fighting a government that is trying to silence the free press; in the Philippines, she was arrested and later found guilty of libel due to the fact that Rappler was critical of then-President Rodrigo Duterte.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025

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“Defamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defamation. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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