proffered

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Batson established a three-part framework for racial juror challenges: Defense counsel challenges a strike, the prosecutor gives race-neutral reasons for it, then defense counsel has the opportunity to rebut those proffered reasons as pretextual.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

An MP close to Miliband proffered a more straightforward explanation.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Netflix on Tuesday revised the terms of the proffered deal to make it all-cash and to provide WBD shareholders with more certainty about the transaction, the company said in a release.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Mourners “gawked, wept, prayed or proffered stiff-armed salutes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Now a young, clean- cut white man rose and came up, his hand extended, and Malcolm X rose and shook the proffered hand firmly.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey