jurist
Example Sentences
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The jurists are hardly due a commendation, since their previous ruling on the question was reversed 9-0 by the Supreme Court this summer.
A former jurist, he is so dull that his nickname is “reinforced concrete.”
Such text can be made to mean almost anything, particularly in the hands of creative jurists.
Ethics experts said Newby has made a habit of flouting North Carolina’s rules on judicial conduct, a pattern startling in the state’s highest-ranking jurist.
From Salon
The plaque that previously labelled the statue read "author, poet, scholar, soldier, jurist, orator, philanthropist and philosopher".
From BBC
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