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prosecutor

[pros-i-kyoo-ter] / ˈprɒs ɪˌkyu tər /
NOUN
accuser
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NOUN
plaintiff
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Judge Drew Tipton, whom President Donald Trump nominated in 2020, granted the prosecutor and police’s motion to kick out the case based largely on the idea of qualified immunity.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Malicious prosecution cases are similarly hard to bring because they require proof that a prosecutor had malicious intentions, not just a bad case.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Pictures published by the regional prosecutor show smashed market kiosks strewn with metal, glass and food.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

But he and another prosecutor argued the reports were similar to what had already been turned over to the defense.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Leahy, the prosecutor who had been hired by the Osage Tribal Council, considered all this to be the most “high-handed and unusual course of conduct I had ever witnessed on the part of attorneys.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann