as in ruling
a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard
he received a light sentence because it was his first offense and he was an otherwise upstanding citizen
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as in to condemn
to impose a judicial punishment on
the judge sentenced him to a fine of $50 and time served
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Recent Examples of sentence
Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month prison sentence but refused Cheney’s request to pardon him.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
If convicted, sentenced to the maximum for each offense, and if their sentences were to run consecutively instead of concurrently, Clase and Ortiz could theoretically face 65 years in prison each.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Advertisement Someone with aphasia might have difficulty forming full sentences, instead repeating jumbled words, or will start slurring.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Bush commuted Libby’s 30-month prison sentence but refused Cheney’s request to pardon him.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
As well as being sentenced to five years in prison, Owen-Cooper has also been disqualified from driving for seven years and three months and ordered to sit an extended retest, police confirmed.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
If convicted, sentenced to the maximum for each offense, and if their sentences were to run consecutively instead of concurrently, Clase and Ortiz could theoretically face 65 years in prison each.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentence
Noun
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Hours later, an appeals court let the ruling to fully fund SNAP stand.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Sauer urged the high court to issue its ruling quickly, noting that it is currently required to use Section 32 funding to send full SNAP benefits by tonight due to McConnell’s order.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Al Jazeera has repeatedly denied those accusations and condemned its closure in Israel.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Prescott was troubled by the significant differences in tone, headlines and emphasis when covering the war, and condemned the BBC for allegedly misreporting the proportion of Palestinian women and children killed by Israeli military actions.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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As outrage over the verdict catalyzed activist campaigns into criminalizing spousal rape in every state (only achieved, with many loopholes, in 1993) the town of Salem, Oregon just wanted to move on.—
Sarah Weinman,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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In October 2025, a Florida appeals court overturned that verdict.—
Sophie Dodd,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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More than a month after one of its professors was arrested on charges of violent felonies at an anti-ICE rally, an elite private university has refused to say whether the academic has been punished.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The National Lunch Company terminated her employment — which was a common practice used by the white power structure in the South to punish civil rights activists.—
Time,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Our findings don’t suggest that every workplace romance is doomed or exploitative.—
Emily Nix,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Like Crazy is a movie about how destructive an obsessive relationship can be, and because Samantha is the sane one in the ensemble, she’s doomed.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Sentence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentence. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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