gravamen

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If they cannot, they will be expected to submit a gravamen to the Professional Status Committee and the Board of Trustees before they are hired.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2022

"The gravamen of the claimed wrongdoing is that the Laundries exercised their constitutional rights and essentially made no statements to Plaintiffs or law enforcement," the motion states.

From Fox News • Mar. 30, 2022

What mattered, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, was the core, or gravamen, of the lawsuit.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2015

But the gravamen of the economic charge against her is the neglect of manufacturing industry.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

And yet—excellent Omicron!—you have but to look the truth in the face—as a plain common-sense man will—and to use your imagination, in order to perceive that there really is no gravamen in the charge.

From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold