How to Use deliberation in a Sentence

deliberation

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  • After hours of deliberation, the council came to a decision.
  • She spoke to the audience with clarity and deliberation.
  • Jury deliberations lasted two days.
  • The case is now in the hands of the jury for deliberation.
    — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
  • Starting Wednesday, the power will shift from the lawyers at the lectern to the jurors in the deliberation room.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 28 May 2024
  • But deliberations over what the new plaque should say have been charged.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Ask some of the people who’ve worked with or played alongside Judge and Ohtani, and the answer has more deliberation.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Even so, the jurors found Mr. Ng guilty of all three charges after more than two days of deliberation.
    — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The judge then ordered the jury to resume deliberations in what is known as an Allen charge.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • During 11 hours of deliberation, jurors asked to see two clips of the video.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But being faced with a new choice will cause all sorts of deliberation.
    — Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • But after about two hours of deliberation, a jury found Sams, 34, not guilty of all charges this week.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The trial is expected to end on May 27, when it will be turned over to the jury for deliberation.
    — Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • As the deliberations dragged on, some in Trump's orbit had become convinced that the case had stalled and that charges might never be brought.
    — Jill Colvin, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
  • As the deliberations dragged on, some in Trump’s orbit had become convinced that the case had stalled and that charges might never be brought.
    — Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The documents that the Senate released detail the deliberations over when and how to announce the deal.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The split verdict was reached on Monday after almost five hours of deliberations over the course of three days.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
  • What was the deliberation process of deciding which 50 made the final cut?
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
  • The judge is then expected to charge the jury on Tuesday, followed by the start of deliberations.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 May 2023
  • There are new time limits on managers’ deliberations on whether to challenge calls on the field, too.
    — Alva Noë, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on the first day of deliberations.
    — Larry Neumeister, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • In two days of deliberations, the jurors have sent three requests to Judge Merchan.
    — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 30 May 2024
  • After nearly three years of deliberation, the plaintiffs and AT&T agreed to settle the case.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 May 2022
  • After a few days of deliberation, late Monday it was ordered that the building would be taken down all the same.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
  • The judge's ruling came on the fifth day of deliberations and after a nine-week trial in a courthouse outside Boston.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 22 July 2024
  • The trial lasted eight days and the jurors rendered a guilty verdict after four and a half hours of deliberation.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • After twelve hours of deliberation, a jury finds Nichols guilty on all 54 counts.
    — CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • On June 1, after three days of deliberation, the jury found Heard liable on all three claims of defamation.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • During its second day of deliberation and with just a few hours before the holiday break, the jury reached a decision in the Arm-Qualcomm case.
    — Jim McGregor, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The jury reached their verdict Monday afternoon after seven days of deliberations.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2024

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