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arraign

[uh-rayn] / əˈreɪn /
VERB
bring into court for charges
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Speaking to local media, Youngblood said he had no one who could arraign the supervisor within a limited time frame, but Kern County prosecutors dispute that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026

O’Connor said federal law and rules of criminal procedure “require this Court to publicly arraign Boeing and permit the crime victims’ representatives to be heard at or in advance of the proceeding.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

The prosecutor noted the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic could put a snag in efforts to arraign Schulte on the new charges and start his retrial as soon as possible, however.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2020

Hägglund wants to arraign capitalism for a similar asceticism.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

But gentlemen of talents and of character have undertaken here to arraign Massachusetts.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett

It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the name of the future it arraigns the past at the bar of the present, and in the name of humanity it demands social justice for every man, woman and child.

From Labor and Freedom by Eugene V. Debs

Scepticism wins a cheap victory when it arraigns faith as a culprit caught in the very act of stealing the forbidden fruit of paradise.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards

Baby was arraigned Thursday and ordered held without bail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Proctor made a brief appearance in a downtown courtroom Monday and is expected to be arraigned later this week, according to a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

He hadn’t been arraigned by Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Juin was arraigned late Thursday and released on a $2 million bond.

From MarketWatch ● May 29, 2026

They arraigned him before a justice, but by that time your grandfather and Mr Coldfield had got there.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

“It’s been arraigning — I mean, raining,” Mr. Conway tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

Dr Mehmood says there aren't enough police available to "handle all these cases efficiently and judiciously, without arraigning innocent people to complete paperwork and save their jobs".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2020

It is hard to resist the conclusion that Garner, in full maternal mode, is arraigning him for not being more of a man.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Another positive development involves arraigning and prosecuting poachers in courts in the main cities, which are considered less susceptible to corruption than their local counterparts.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 10, 2015

"How silly we were, Anne," she said aloud, mentally arraigning those two very young creatures of college days.

From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott




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