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Recent Examples of remand
Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Strangio asked the Court to vacate the lower court’s decision and remand it, with instructions to reevaluate the text of SB 1.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
In 2007, she was remanded to Kerrville State Hospital, a mental facility in Texas.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Attorneys for New Jersey argued that even a partial remand meant the program was no longer authorized by federal regulators, and that a lack of clarity regarding pollution mitigation should in and of itself be enough to order a temporary pause on the program.
—Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2025
Strangio asked the Court to vacate the lower court’s decision and remand it, with instructions to reevaluate the text of SB 1.
—Samantha Riedel, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
Verb
He was remanded to a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles and awaits an October trial.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
In 2007, she was remanded to Kerrville State Hospital, a mental facility in Texas.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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More: Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention The government could use AI to identify objects or persons of interest by sifting through satellite images and other data feeds, much like the Defense Department can do on the battlefield, said two sources familiar with the initiative.—
Marisa Taylor and Jeffrey Dastin,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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The high-profile detentions of Ozturk and Doroudi followed the detention earlier this month of Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University grad student who had been active in the 2024 campus pro-Palestinian protests.—
Caroline Linton,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2025
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What happened to the Hollywood Ten, a group of producers, directors and screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted for refusing to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947?—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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Its focus is instead on two women who share little in common but the fact that their husbands are both jailed in the same facility.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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The resulting funds could only be used by the interned to pay for their confinement.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Mar. 2025
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The lives of poor Liberians were temporarily suspended, bracketed by confinement, while those with far more resources could transcend it.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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Ozturk is detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, according to ICE’s online detainee locater system.—
Gloria Pazmino,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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The act is a wartime law that grants the commander in chief authority to detain or deport non-citizens.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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The teens, meanwhile, are incarcerated in its juvenile facility.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, Naz, whose solitary ways confuse his family, very much wishes that Aziza wasn’t meeting his adamantine mother, Claudine (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), or his famous father, or his ex-state-senator older brother, Junior (Glenn Davis), recently incarcerated for embezzling campaign funds.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
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Instead of additional incarceration, his attorney asked for probation Tuesday.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
26 Mar. 2025
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Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 30 years to life in prison, while the defense argued for no incarceration.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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To be sure, such high school activism wasn’t confined to the war.—
Made by History,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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The auroral glow occurs because of the same basic interaction of solar particles interacting with the planet's atmosphere, but instead of being confined to the north and south poles, Neptune’s auroras are located at the planet’s mid-latitudes — roughly where South America is located on Earth.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Police do not have their identities yet but anticipate other arrests once they are identified, the spokesperson said.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2025
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Israeli director Abraham, who had previously criticised the organisation’s failure to publicly support Hamdan in the wake of his arrest, has hit out at a letter co-signed by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang sent to Academy members on Wednesday, seemingly in response to what happened to Ballal.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Remand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remand. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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