holdout
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And I want to talk to the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
The motion also leaves UC as a major holdout after a string of settlements in which universities facing antisemitism investigations agreed to pay a combined total of hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Eleven jurors were in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity, but they were opposed by a single holdout who has spoken publicly about being sure of her guilt.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
Like nearly everyone I grew up around in this corner of Pennsylvania, Sundays in our house were a congregation in green, and I was the lone holdout in the pew, quietly pulling for New England.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Here and there a Luddite holdout refuses to open an email account, just as thousands of years ago some human bands refused to take up farming and so escaped the luxury trap.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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