as in nominal
law
involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
Detainees also must be given a list of pro bono attorneys in English and Spanish upon arrival at the facility, along with interpreter services if needed.
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Todd Feurer, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
Provide a list of pro bono immigration lawyers in English and Spanish, along with interpreter services when needed.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Her pro bono work included challenging solitary confinement for extended periods of time and advocating for the inclusion of female baseball players on high school baseball teams.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Beyond the courtroom, the firm invests in pro bono clinics to demystify legal processes.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
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Todd Feurer, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
Provide a list of pro bono immigration lawyers in English and Spanish, along with interpreter services when needed.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Her pro bono work included challenging solitary confinement for extended periods of time and advocating for the inclusion of female baseball players on high school baseball teams.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Beyond the courtroom, the firm invests in pro bono clinics to demystify legal processes.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
Adjective
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Austin Public trains those producers, who, for a nominal fee, gain access to state-of-the-art equipment, studio space and content distribution for their own work.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
29 Dec. 2025
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Academic users will be able to access the platform for a nominal fee, while biotech and pharmaceutical companies are charged an annual subscription, which gives them the right to store their data securely, as well as a relatively low per-use charge.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
18 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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Moon’s poems suggest Buddhist ideologies and Korean temples, yet the works remain largely free of cultural-specific imagery and are, instead, naturalistic or universal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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