courtroom
Americannoun
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courtrooms
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noun
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Origin of courtroom
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What she is now discovering is that a courtroom does not run on the same rules as a cable television set.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
In the courtroom he spoke only to confirm his name on the first day.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
A two-week trial over this system, and over the state’s broader refusal to air-condition its prisons, wrapped up on April 9 in Pitman’s Austin courtroom.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
David Skeel, he author of “Promise Land” on clashes in the boardroom and the courtroom that came after the money ran out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Everything in the courtroom is adult-size and makes me feel small.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Agents with their faces covered up to their eyes, in unmarked black SUVs with tinted windows, would wait outside churches, mosques, schools, daycares, courtrooms, and hospitals.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“In many, many courtrooms throughout the state today, there is nobody there, and there’s not going to be anybody there,” attorney Sonya Winner told the high court during oral arguments in Los Angeles last month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Posthumous avatars are already being used in museums, courtrooms and political campaigns.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Welfare offices became “job centers” and set welfare recipients to painting park benches, raking leaves and cleaning courtrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
In one of the courtrooms, I met Marvin Stepson.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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