How to Use gag order in a Sentence

gag order

noun
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  • The judge has issued a gag order.
  • Planned trial date: March 4 Last week: The big event was the gag order.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The gag order is on hold for now, while the appeals court weighs the issue.
    — Tom jackman, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The judge imposed a gag order on all involved in the trial.
    — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The court has issued a restrictive gag order on the case.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The New York judge was the first to impose a gag order against Trump, before Chutkan soon followed.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The judge amended the gag order to cover his and Mr. Bragg’s families.
    — Ben Protess, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The parties in the case are under a gag order, unable to communicate with the press.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • As of a gag order on Jan. 3, police had still not recovered the murder weapon.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The extent of the discovery disclosure is unclear, with a gag order on the case and the specifics filed under seal.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2024
  • That led to a gag order prohibiting both sides from publicly discussing the case.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Not signing gag orders would actually be a very big leap for a lot of unions and would be a great first step.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The Madison County Record was allowed to intervene in the case to oppose the gag order, which was sought by the district.
    — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 15 Mar. 2022
  • And then a day later, Judge Chutkan issued a request for a narrow gag order.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But on May 25, the court will also heal a separate appeal of the gag order from Goncalves' family.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 4 May 2023
  • Commencement was quiet and coaches and athletes, we’ve been told, were asked not to comment on any of the above even though the school says there is no gag order.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2022
  • The Idaho Supreme Court ruling means the news coalition could now go to the magistrate judge to ask her to reconsider the gag order.
    — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • That’s how much Trump had been fined for two separate violations of the gag order.
    — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In June, the government moved to modify the gag order, saying Twitter could alert Trump to the contents of the warrant -- just not the identity of the case agent.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Munro declined to comment further, citing a gag order issued by the judge for the prosecution and the defense in the case.
    — James Bikales, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Judge Melanie Cross amended her initial gag order on the case freeing the Grinstead family to speak.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2022
  • Because of the gag order, Gilovanni has been unable to address the criticism and set the record straight, Buckley said.
    — Jennifer Peebles, ajc, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Office said their offices could not comment because of a gag order.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The gag order in the Washington, D.C., court is one of two imposed against Trump in his various legal cases.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Zy Richardson, a spokeswoman for the State’s Attorney’s Office, declined to comment, citing a gag order in place in the case.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2022
  • The gag order did not cover District Attorney Alvin Bragg or the judge or his family.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The post earned Trump a gag order, setting in motion a parallel fight that left him seething at the limits a judge can impose on a defendant.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Trump has unsuccessfully tried to challenge the gag order placed on him by Judge Tanya Chutkan late last year through appeals.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • This comes after Judge Clifton Newman already denied a gag order in the case earlier this month.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • There is a gag order in place preventing Dean, the attorneys and those sworn in as witnesses from talking publicly about the case.
    — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022

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