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Among the steps identified by the judge was that Yaxley-Lennon should remove social media posts that repeated the libellous claim about the Syrian national.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

Associated Newspapers had denied the article was libellous, and a preliminary hearing was held last month to determine what a reader would conclude was the "natural and ordinary" meaning of the Mail story.

From Reuters • Jul. 8, 2022

I am aware of yet more personal, libellous, nasty and fictional crap being published about me again today.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2022

When Times reporters and editors are working on a story that they believe is controversial or potentially libellous or potentially explosive, where do you come into the process, and how does that work?

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2019

George Chalmers brought to the same press his libellous "Life of Pain."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel