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Recent Examples of remand
Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
But on remand to a lower court, Barnes’s estate lost on summary judgment.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026
That case bounced to federal court before it was remanded back to Puerto Rico’s court system, where a final resolution is still pending.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Justices can either uphold the Court of Appeals’ dismissal of the case or remand it back to the Court of Claims for consideration, which would then mean the legality of Michigan denying workers' compensation wages to undocumented workers who suffer injuries on the job could be debated.
—Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
But on remand to a lower court, Barnes’s estate lost on summary judgment.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
Reversed and remanded in part with instructions; modified in part.
—The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026
That case bounced to federal court before it was remanded back to Puerto Rico’s court system, where a final resolution is still pending.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remand
Noun
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Hoshieh says one of her sons was killed by Israeli military gunfire in January 2023, while a second is held in Israeli administrative detention.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Ruben has spent two years at a juvenile detention facility, and Niall doesn’t want him as a classmate.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Since the 2021 army takeover, nearly 8,000 civilians have been killed and some 22,208 political detainees remain jailed, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a rights monitoring group.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Confronted by the local cops, Strahler admitted to creating and sending the images, then was arrested and jailed.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2026
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Suhail pleaded not guilty on Wednesday and was released on $5 million bond, ordered to remain on home confinement.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Colette, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth all wrote habitually from bed, for reasons having to do with infirmity, comfort, and warding off distraction; Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits from bed, including the dreams that transcended her physical confinement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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David has only been detained under suspicion.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
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The district attorney’s office asked that he be detained without bail, while Morris requested his immediate release.—
Bay City News Service,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Further out, a cemetery monument stands in honor of the 150 people who died at the camp during their imprisonment.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
21 Apr. 2026
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The government did not specify the nature of the alternative measures, a term that in Venezuela’s legal system can include a range of restrictions short of full imprisonment.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
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As of Wednesday, Mateuz was incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Researchers tracked the defendants’ behavior while they were incarcerated.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Apr. 2026
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At one point, early in his incarceration, Maduro seems to have been kept in a unit designed for solitary confinement, as is often the case for inmates of his status.—
Diego Lasarte,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2026
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Facing a brutal system throughout her incarceration – compounded by her transgender identity and HIV-positive diagnosis – Dee taught herself the law from within the prison library, working to fight an unjust system for herself and others.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
Verb
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In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Families like the ones served by Knightsbridge may be operating at a different scale, but the underlying pattern—uprooting a household, splitting a family across time zones, reorganizing daily life around one child’s athletic trajectory—is hardly confined to the ultra-wealthy.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
19 Apr. 2026
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