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courtrooms

  • plural
    of courtroom.
    courtroom
    noun
    a room in which the sessions of a law court are held.

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Use of recording devices, including phones, isn’t generally allowed in courtrooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

There is no oak panelling, no green leather-bound legal textbooks like the courtrooms you see on TV dramas.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Witkoff became one of the people who traveled with Trump, showing up not only in courtrooms but seemingly at every important event.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

In county-seat courtrooms, you learn quickly that the court system works only when everyone—the farmer, the defendant, the victim’s family—knows the judge is impartial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

The dark passage outside the courtrooms was packed with tall, black-hooded figures, their faces completely hidden, their ragged breathing the only sound in the place.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling