How to Use verdict in a Sentence
verdict
noun
- The verdict was not guilty.
- Do you want my verdict on the meal?
- The jury reached a guilty verdict.
- The critic's verdict about the show was positive.
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The verdicts were hailed as marking a new era of justice in the #MeToo era.
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Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Apr. 2024
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Weinstein has filed a notice to appeal that verdict as well.
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Minyvonne Burke,
NBC News,
27 Apr. 2024
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What happens if Trump wins the presidency before any verdict is reached?
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Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2024
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After months of holds and appeals, whether a verdict in the case would come before Election Day is up in the air.
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Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
25 Apr. 2024
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After four weeks of testimony, jurors returned a verdict in under three hours.
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Holly Ramer,
Twin Cities,
3 May 2024
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Family members of the two victims hugged their attorneys after the verdict was announced.
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Amy Beth Hanson,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2024
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Hordes of fans had attended Trump’s trial each day, and his campaign had raised more than fifty million dollars in the twenty-four hours after the verdict was announced.
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Antonia Hitchens,
The New Yorker,
12 Aug. 2024
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Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before delivering the guilty verdicts.
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Nicole Acosta,
Peoplemag,
14 Aug. 2024
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The jury delivered the verdict in favor of Alba on Friday after deliberating for about four days.
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Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2024
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Too often shareholders and consumers issue verdicts on companies based solely on initial lofty expectations.
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Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
1 May 2024
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The concern was that the jury would be intimidated by the uniforms or feel a sense of community expectation to deliver a death penalty verdict.
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James Hartley,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 May 2024
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If the verdict had gone the other way, what would that have meant for the film?
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K.j. Yossman,
Variety,
27 July 2023
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Ward on Wednesday said Bryant is pleased with the not guilty verdict.
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Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com,
al,
31 May 2023
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The verdict: The first thing our tasters noticed was the darker color of the noodles.
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Sam Stone,
Bon Appétit,
5 Oct. 2023
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Feinstein condemned the verdict and urged the city to stay calm.
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Cathleen Decker,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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Vander Ark was sick and not in the courtroom when the jury reached its verdict.
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CBS News,
18 Dec. 2023
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From start to finish, the reading of the verdict took less than three minutes.
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Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
31 May 2024
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City lawyers told the judge that a decision on whether to appeal the verdict would be made in the coming days.
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John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
29 July 2023
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Lori's mother Sheri Farmer still remembers the day the verdict was read.
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Christine Pelisek,
Peoplemag,
10 July 2023
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The Trump campaign used anger over the verdict to raise a staggering $141 million in May.
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Ben Terris,
Washington Post,
18 June 2024
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James Crumbley was silent and shook his head as the jury foreperson read the verdict.
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Kim Bellware,
Washington Post,
14 Mar. 2024
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If Chutkan’s March 4 start date holds, lawyers estimate that case could reach a verdict by May.
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Doyle McManus,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Sep. 2023
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The verdict: Some other pie crusts in our test were buttery, sure, but none of them were quite as buttery as Kroger’s.
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Sam Stone,
Bon Appétit,
3 Nov. 2023
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The verdict came at the tail end of a chaotic Thursday morning in San Francisco.
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Chris Young,
NBC News,
16 Nov. 2023
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Several experts deemed the verdict a step back for the #MeToo movement.
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Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
27 July 2023
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The not guilty verdicts related to Ms. Erlich and the third sister, Nicole Meyer, 37.
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Yan Zhuang,
New York Times,
24 Aug. 2023
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