impanel
Americanverb (used with object)
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to enter on a panel or list for jury duty.
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to select (a jury) from the panel.
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to enter names on a panel or other official list.
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Etymology
Origin of impanel
1375–1425; late Middle English empanellen < Anglo-French empaneller. See em- 1, panel
Example Sentences
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They also plan this week to vote to impanel two new committees.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
If a member is charged with a crime, the Ethics Committee would be required to impanel an investigative subcommittee within 30 days to review the allegations or submit a report explaining why it didn’t.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
However, New York law could allow prosecutors down the road to impanel another grand jury, but that carries risks -- whether or not Cohen agrees to participate.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
They also are often reluctant to impanel a new grand jury after an earlier one has heard testimony, because witnesses could make conflicting statements if asked to testify again.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Allen straightened himself, and looking around at the company, replied: "Yes, I did, sir; but 'Old Brindle' transcended the impanel of the impound, and scatterlophisticated all over the equanimity of the forest."
From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
Barnette has since impaneled a state grand jury, his deputy said Monday, declining further comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Last month, a 20-member expert commission impaneled by L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
With a jury now impaneled, Donald Trump’s hush-money trial can finally begin in earnest.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
A special grand jury impaneled last year found Givens’ death was “suspicious” and said in a report that “nearly every witness” described living conditions in the prison sector housing mentally ill inmates as “unsuitable.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
Another jury, a jury of the barony, was impaneled.
From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir
For Bragg, the new year began by impaneling a grand jury to hear evidence in the hush-money case.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, said that impaneling the grand jury was a sign that prosecutors had acknowledged the complexity, sensitivity and unique nature of the case.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2022
In her letter to Christopher S. Brasher, chief judge of Fulton County’s Superior Court, Willis cited several advantages to impaneling a rarely used special purpose grand jury.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
A spokesperson for Mueller would not confirm reports of the impaneling of a grand jury.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2017
Emerson Mead’s trial had been in progress nearly two weeks, but most of the time had been exhausted in impaneling a jury.
From With Hoops of Steel by Smith, Dan
The drawn-out cycle of questioning and culling will continue until a full jury has been impanelled.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2024
Deandre Somerville, of West Palm Beach, was impanelled for a civil case in August, but he failed to notify the court when he didn't show up.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2019
On Wallace’s second day of freedom, the state impanelled a grand jury, which reindicted him for Miller’s murder.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
He impanelled a special grand jury and presented testimony from 50 witnesses over nine weeks, including the accused police officer.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2015
But a man who was not a house guard came into my private office one day just as the jury was about to be impanelled.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)
We often take more time in impanelling a jury than they would in trying the case.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
Whether impanelling the jury for the trial of a case is a long or short process will depend largely on the intelligence and firmness of the judge who holds the court.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
They were not embarrassed by a necessity of impanelling juries; they might call juries if they pleased; they might use "all other means and politic ways that they could devise."
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Rhys, Ernest
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