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No president, including Trump, can have their own force of extralegal activists, ready to take action.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
To make things trickier, Dexter must balance his extralegal affairs with a new forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
However, by then, there seemed to be some growing political and legal blowback for these extralegal expulsions.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
This contemporary dispossession of Indigenous people fits into the long and violent history in which legal and extralegal measures are taken by those in power to forcibly remove Indigenous inhabitants from their land.
—Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2025
To make things trickier, Dexter must balance his extralegal affairs with a new forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 26 Nov. 2024
However, by then, there seemed to be some growing political and legal blowback for these extralegal expulsions.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
This contemporary dispossession of Indigenous people fits into the long and violent history in which legal and extralegal measures are taken by those in power to forcibly remove Indigenous inhabitants from their land.
—Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Extralegal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extralegal. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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extralegal
adjective
ex·tra·le·gal
ˌek-strə-ˈlē-gəl 
: not regulated or sanctioned by law
extralegally
adverb
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