as in rulings
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 condemns
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 sentences
Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said he is expected to be sentenced to three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the deaths of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
The murder sentences will run concurrently, and the weapons sentence will run consecutively, for a total of 20 years.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
The prosecutors said federal courts elsewhere have retroactively applied the new guidelines to impose sentences of 36 months for torture in Ethiopia, 10 years for abuses during the Liberian civil war, 57 and 63 months in two other cases in Bosnia.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
People convicted of felony mail theft could face up to three years in state prison, with longer sentences possible for those with prior criminal histories.
—Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Katz said first-degree murder, or Murder 1, would have meant the possibility of life without parole, but that, in the aggregate, the remaining four charges could amount to 90 years to life, if the sentences are consecutive.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
These sentences, written by Averbuch’s translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, appear on the first page of Averbuch’s facing-page bilingual collection Furious Harvests—the only page in the book where chronology can be told quite so simply.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Capital sentences will now require only a simple majority of sitting judges rather than unanimous agreement, the group said.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
Her sentences themselves have a cartilaginous magic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Despite the wholesale change in how California sentences juvenile offenders, outrage over the crime has not faded.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Given that, Ake sentences her to a rehabilitation camp and separates her from her young son, Caleb.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026
Williams was able to petition for resentencing due to a law enacted in 2011 that allowed judges to give juvenile offenders with life without parole sentences a chance to be resentenced.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
House Bill 535 would impose harsher minimum sentences for anyone convicted of trafficking fentanyl.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said he is expected to be sentenced to three consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the deaths of Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
The murder sentences will run concurrently, and the weapons sentence will run consecutively, for a total of 20 years.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
The prosecutors said federal courts elsewhere have retroactively applied the new guidelines to impose sentences of 36 months for torture in Ethiopia, 10 years for abuses during the Liberian civil war, 57 and 63 months in two other cases in Bosnia.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
People convicted of felony mail theft could face up to three years in state prison, with longer sentences possible for those with prior criminal histories.
—Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Katz said first-degree murder, or Murder 1, would have meant the possibility of life without parole, but that, in the aggregate, the remaining four charges could amount to 90 years to life, if the sentences are consecutive.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
These sentences, written by Averbuch’s translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky, appear on the first page of Averbuch’s facing-page bilingual collection Furious Harvests—the only page in the book where chronology can be told quite so simply.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Capital sentences will now require only a simple majority of sitting judges rather than unanimous agreement, the group said.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
The Seoul Central District Court sentences Yoon to five years in prison for resisting arrest and fabricating the martial law proclamation, the first verdict against Yoon.
—ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
Her sentences themselves have a cartilaginous magic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Despite the wholesale change in how California sentences juvenile offenders, outrage over the crime has not faded.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2026
Given that, Ake sentences her to a rehabilitation camp and separates her from her young son, Caleb.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Jan. 2026
Williams was able to petition for resentencing due to a law enacted in 2011 that allowed judges to give juvenile offenders with life without parole sentences a chance to be resentenced.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentences
Noun
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When added to the growing list of rulings, her strategy is rapidly becoming clear.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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That lasted five games until new rulings barred him again.—
Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Yamal condemns anti-Muslim chants Spain signed off for the World Cup on Tuesday with a 0-0 draw against Egypt.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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Pappas’ report, released Monday morning, condemns political leaders — many of them Democrats like herself — for exploiting loopholes in a state law designed to limit real estate tax increases.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Instead, the findings were limited to oral briefings, shared with Summers and Taylor.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The findings also align with what immigrant-rights advocates and immigration attorneys are seeing in real time.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Targeting property Iran’s judiciary has begun seizing the property of public figures critical of the country’s rulers, under an anti-espionage law approved during last year’s 12-day war with Israel that punishes media and cultural activities deemed to support Iran’s enemies.—
Amir-Hussein Radjy,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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Iran’s judiciary has begun seizing the property of public figures critical of the country's rulers, under an anti-espionage law approved during last year’s 12-day war with Israel that punishes media and cultural activities deemed to support Iran's enemies.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The financial penalties to date have been minimal — less than $400 million in damages between the two verdicts last week — but the cases establish a troubling precedent for tech giants that are betting their future on AI.—
Jennifer Elias,Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2026
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Meta and Google both plan to appeal the verdicts.—
Shannon Bond,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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This leads to the fracture in Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship that dooms them all to ruin.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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Without that sense of desperate loneliness, what dooms Frankenstein and the Creature to their deaths?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2025
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