as in nominal
law
involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
The message included a link to a story noting the firm was defending Smith pro bono.
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Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
But the fund’s failings struck at the heart of New York’s intentions, said Eric Olson, a corporate and finance lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb, a white-shoe firm helping some licensees to develop their businesses pro bono.
—Ashley Southall, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Twice in this story, Nadia describes her desire to become an assassin—not a killer for hire but someone who kills bad guys pro bono.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Alliance Defending Freedom of Scottsdale, Arizona, represented the school district pro bono.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
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Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
But the fund’s failings struck at the heart of New York’s intentions, said Eric Olson, a corporate and finance lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb, a white-shoe firm helping some licensees to develop their businesses pro bono.
—Ashley Southall, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Twice in this story, Nadia describes her desire to become an assassin—not a killer for hire but someone who kills bad guys pro bono.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Alliance Defending Freedom of Scottsdale, Arizona, represented the school district pro bono.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
Adjective
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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At any given moment, 2 million to 10 million Ukrainians have been living in freezing temperatures without electricity.—
Maham Javaid,
Washington Post,
22 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Imagine if a book publisher demanded that authors write books for free and, instead of employing in-house editors, relied on other authors to edit those books, also for free.—
Sheon Han,
Wired News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Look for a gentle cleaner free of dyes, fragrances, and other harsh ingredients.—
Ann Pietrangelo,
Verywell Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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