Example Sentences

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But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

But 9/11, the 2001 terrorist attack by Islamist extremists, collaterally and paradoxically grounded Rushdie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

I’m assuming this collaterally means my kids will also not have a relationship with my father, which I’m mostly fine with.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2020

Their challenge, English argues, was how to “convict Bulger without collaterally tarnishing the reputation of the system they represented.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

Others more seriously concerned were by this mere exposition of the Scriptures led to study collaterally commentaries on the Bible and to take up theology.

From The History of the Negro Church by Woodson, Carter Godwin