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courthouse

[kawrt-hous, kohrt-] / ˈkɔrtˌhaʊs, ˈkoʊrt- /




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OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman "are confident in their position and look forward to the facts being known," their attorney, William Savitt, said outside the courthouse after jurors were selected Monday.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

He is due to be arraigned - or formally charged - in a New York federal courthouse on Tuesday, US media report.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

I represent another man in the same courthouse.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

In a federal courthouse in Los Angeles last spring, Judge Otis Wright II, a no-nonsense former Marine, was baffled by what he was hearing from the prosecutor before him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt