Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of hearingsBarisone was entitled to regular hearings at which a judge would weigh the risk of releasing him.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2026 Spain’s immigration law requires that authorities open individual case files into family whereabouts and hold hearings on a child’s maturity, if necessary, before returning children.—
Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 Sep. 2026 The split also means immigrants in some parts of the country are getting bail hearings while those in other places, including Texas and Louisiana, face additional hurdles to seek release.—Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2026 Dan Barrett, legal director for the ACLU-CT, said that while the public can attend court hearings and see the day’s docket, that is not a practical way for people to access that information and get a broad picture of what’s going on.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
11 Sep. 2026 Regan remains in his job as an administrative process moves forward with hearings.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Sep. 2026 No further hearings had been scheduled in the case as of Friday.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2026 Revenue was only around $8 billion at the time, and the league was enmeshed in controversy, from Spygate to concussion hearings to a pending lockout.—
Will Leitch,
Washington Post,
10 Sep. 2026 Ryan promised hearings if the Democrats win a majority in the House in November’s mid-term elections.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2026
Halfway through the evening, Hendifar, artistic director and CEO of the New York City design studio Apparatus, realized they’d re-created the sounds of his childhood home in Los Angeles, where his mother had immigrated from Tehran.
—
Sean Santiago,
Architectural Digest,
15 Sep. 2026
The sounds of eventual victory, Tolokonnikov said, might be heard in the echoes of an earlier chapter of Ukrainian history.
This does indicate that, like Pickford, Suzuki is capable of getting huge distances on his passes.
—
Aston Villa,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2026
Printed, copied, and circulated among an extraordinarily literate population, the Constitution executed a covenant and allowed, too, for the exertion of power over vast distances.