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arraign

[uh-rayn] / əˈreɪn /
VERB
bring into court for charges
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O’Connor said federal law and rules of criminal procedure “require this Court to publicly arraign Boeing and permit the crime victims’ representatives to be heard at or in advance of the proceeding.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

In most circumstances, prosecutors have 48 hours to arraign a person in custody, said Louis Shapiro, a well-known defense lawyer in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

The prosecutor noted the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic could put a snag in efforts to arraign Schulte on the new charges and start his retrial as soon as possible, however.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2020

Hägglund wants to arraign capitalism for a similar asceticism.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

Who is the poor litigant that would dare arraign an unjust Judge, well sheltered in his judicial ermine, and the entire profession ready to champion him?

From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal

Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.

From Time Magazine Archive

It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Thoreau's critics justly aver that he severely arraigns his countrymen because they are not all Thoreaus—that they do not desert their farms and desks and shops and take to the woods.

From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs

The very actions, however, which he arraigns, have been such as the great majority of my fellow citizens have approved.

From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

Julie Hanway Molina, 56, was arrested at her Aliso Viejo home and is expected to be arraigned Thursday in U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Pearsall appeared Thursday at the Westminster courthouse and was scheduled to be arraigned, but his arraignment was continued until Sept. 21.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He hadn’t been arraigned by Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Juin was arraigned late Thursday and released on a $2 million bond.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

It was large and packed; this was not just a hearing for Reggie but for many others being arraigned.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

“It’s been arraigning — I mean, raining,” Mr. Conway tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

Dr Mehmood says there aren't enough police available to "handle all these cases efficiently and judiciously, without arraigning innocent people to complete paperwork and save their jobs".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2020

It is hard to resist the conclusion that Garner, in full maternal mode, is arraigning him for not being more of a man.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Another positive development involves arraigning and prosecuting poachers in courts in the main cities, which are considered less susceptible to corruption than their local counterparts.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 10, 2015

As a document arraigning carelessness on the part of land buyers it cannot be excelled.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory




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