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the highest court of law in a country or U.S. state
Supreme Court justices
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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.
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Robert Anello, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Robert Anello, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supreme courts
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The Nuremberg trials also helped to establish precedents used in later international criminal tribunals, including those in the wake of the Bosnian war and Rwandan genocide, and influenced the formation of the International Criminal Court, which began operating in 2002 in The Hague.—
B.B. Blaber,
The Conversation,
8 Dec. 2025
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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
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The founders argue that automation should be accessible to smaller operators, including neighborhood bars and private event spaces.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Braddy was sentenced to 30 years behind bars but was released from prison in 1997 — a year before Quatisha’s killing — after serving only 13 years.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Supreme courts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supreme%20courts. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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