exemplary damages
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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She is seeking a jury trial as well as punitive and exemplary damages for her “mental and physical pain and suffering.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
“They appear to remain completely unrepentant about that and it ought, to pick up the language of exemplary damages, be something that shocks the conscience,” Hodge added.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Tesla is suing Yatskov for compensatory and exemplary damages, and is also seeking a court order that would force Yatskov to return the classified information.
From The Verge ● May 7, 2022
Mr Lansdown is seeking financial compensation as well as exemplary damages of up to £76m to "deter" P&O Ferries or DP World from acting the same way in future.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022
Not a week passes but we forfeit exemplary damages for inciting him to fall foul of passing gentlemen, in the vain hope of getting him slain.
From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce
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