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In its first verdicts handed down last week, Baghdad's Karkh Criminal Court sentenced nine men to jail terms of up to 20 years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Grammy-winning R&B star, 37, appeared Monday at Southwark Crown Court, where a judge handed down an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Davis offered no words of contrition ahead of the sentence being handed down, vowing only to appeal the guilty finding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Supreme Court reviews only final judgments handed down by state courts, and the Boulder case did not result in a final ruling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

He thought of it calmly, as if the decision were being handed down to him by some logic not his own, over which he had no control, but which he had to obey.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

They are among the home cooks whipping up feasts from handed-down recipes and sharing those dishes with others.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2022

"When I came to Maine, a colleague who was a native Mainer gave me her handed-down family recipes for how to collect, clean, and prepare Irish moss, as well as a pudding recipe."

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022

Brown says she is the keeper of handed-down family photos; she doesn’t know every person pictured here, but they’re all connected to her in some way, collected through time.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022

And invisibly present is the handed-down know-how of weavers past.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

Then, according to the handed-down story, McLane managed to somehow deliver the codebook to Admiral de Grasse, enabling him to foresee British maneuvers and win the sea battle.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen