How to Use special master in a Sentence

special master

noun
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  • The county will pay for the cost of the special master.
    — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The special master would then provide the findings and facts of the case to the justices.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The special master in the Trump case faces an imposing task.
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The court has a cartographer and a special master ready to do that.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
  • How would a judge usually choose a special master in a case like this?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The courts would be likely to appoint a special master to redraw the district lines.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Lawyers for Trump want the special master's work to continue.
    — Eric Tucker, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The Supreme Court’s action means that the special master in the case and Trump’s legal team will not have access to those documents.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The court will appoint a special master to redraw the lines, pending appeal.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Trump’s legal team has said a special master is needed to ensure a fair process.
    — Ann E. Marimow and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • As was the case a decade ago, the court hired Persily as special master and directed him to make minimal changes.
    — Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • If the map is deemed to be in violation of the VRA, a special master will be appointed to redraw it.
    — Caroline Curran, ABC News, 23 July 2023
  • Cannon will first need to appoint someone to perform the job of special master.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The judge in this case, or in the case that the Trump team brought, has appointed a special master to look over all the material that was seized out of Mar-a-Lago.
    — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The high court's ruling paved the way for a special master, appointed by a lower court judge, to craft the new district contours.
    — Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Dearie was one of the two candidates Trump's legal team proposed to serve as special master.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • This increases the likelihood that the special master will draw a ...
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The special master will determine whether to block DOJ from using the records in its criminal probe.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Even as Dearie moves ahead with the review, the Justice Department is still fighting the appointment of a special master in court.
    — Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to perform an independent review of the records.
    — Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Weeks after the search, Trump lawyers asked a judge to appoint a special master to conduct an independent review of the records.
    — Colleen Long, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2022
  • If the state misses the deadline or submits maps the court deems unacceptable, the three-judge panel could hire a third party, known as a special master, to draw the maps.
    — Ralph Chapoco, al, 13 July 2023
  • Typically, both parties would split the cost of a special master.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Democrats, who controlled New York’s redistricting process for the first time in more than 50 years, seethed when the special master released his draft Monday.
    — Jimmy Vielkind and Eliza Collins, WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • The judges wrote that Allen has not shown that Alabama is likely to prevail on the merits of the case while appealing the decision for a special master.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Here’s what to know about the investigation’s new special master, Judge Dearie.
    — Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The judges assigned a special master to oversee the remedial map.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Justice Department and lawyers for Mr. Trump appeared to have sharply diverging views of who could serve as a special master and what that person would do.
    — New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The Trump team asked a judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, to appoint a special master to do an independent review of the records.
    — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • But the special master, a Carnegie Mellon fellow named Jonathan Cervas, isn’t a partisan hack.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 May 2022

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