deliberating

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The council responsible for choosing his successor is struck while deliberating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

After deliberating for more than eight hours, the jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

“The Board has been deliberating on this issue since the end of that stakeholder process,” Shields said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

Four days later the case settled while the jury was deliberating.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

On the evening of October 28, the jury began deliberating.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann