supreme courts

plural of supreme court

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Recent Examples of supreme courts In contrast to the Second Circuit, the Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and several state supreme courts all have held that confrontation requires face-to-face confrontation. Robert Anello, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supreme courts
Noun
  • That panel included two former judges who had overseen international criminal tribunals, a former legal adviser to the British Foreign Office, and Amal Clooney, a British Lebanese human-rights lawyer and the wife of George Clooney.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Winding its way through tax tribunals and the county treasurer's office all the way to the Michigan Court of Appeals through a trail of unseen revocation notices, jurisdictional conflicts and behind-the-scenes bureaucratic handwringing, that eventually got worked out.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The other, dubbed the Entertainment District Unit, places more police in uptown during peak nightlife hours when most crimes are likely to occur at or near bars and nightclubs.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Matthiessen contextualizes their demands within the history of colonial violence, and persuasively argues for the release of Peltier, who spent nearly fifty years behind bars before his sentence was commuted to house arrest by President Joe Biden, this past January.
    Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Supreme courts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supreme%20courts. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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