ACLU
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
After 9/11, she worked for the ACLU, representing the Sikh community in a series of discrimination lawsuits.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Jenna Leventoff, senior policy counsel at the ACLU, focused on another impact of some of these bills in an interview with Salon: the destruction of services that offer end-to-end encryption.
From Salon • Dec. 22, 2025
The team that led this case up until this point has just been extraordinary and helped to prepare me for the oral argument, along with our co-counsel at the ACLU.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2025
Baca had once told the ACLU, “I will never, ever resign. I intend to be sheriff as long as I live.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2025
By the time I left the ACLU, I had come to suspect that I was wrong about the criminal justice system.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
![]()
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.