How to Use deliberation in a Sentence

deliberation

noun
  • After hours of deliberation, the council came to a decision.
  • She spoke to the audience with clarity and deliberation.
  • Jury deliberations lasted two days.
  • But being faced with a new choice will cause all sorts of deliberation.
    Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • The chief justice speaks for the high court and the rest of the state’s judiciary and presides over oral arguments and deliberation meetings.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
  • Peter Van Sant: What was going through your mind as the jury begins its deliberation?
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Two of the jurors selected for trial are alternates and will be dismissed once deliberations begin.
    Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
  • After about two hours of deliberation, a jury found Thompkins guilty of murder and three counts of felonious assault in May.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
  • The law, while potentially frustrating, adds transparency and deliberation to the rule-making process.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • Typos on the verdict form compelled jurors to briefly return to the deliberation room to correct and sign them while attorneys, reporters and others waited in the courtroom.
    Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • Shortly after beginning their second day of deliberation, jurors returned with their verdict, rejecting the idea that the killing had been a spur-of-the-moment act of passion.
    James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 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
  • After careful deliberation, one of the first images that OpenAI prompted was a doughnut made of porcupine quills.
    Laura Lane, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
  • 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
  • The judge then ordered the jury to resume deliberations in what is known as an Allen charge.
    Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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 some deliberation on how to handle the situation, Santry eventually decided to call the police.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024

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