lieu
Example Sentences
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In lieu of engaging in objective analysis, the discipline is shaping, even bending, the truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Employees who were given shares over the years in lieu of cash compensation, for example, have one way to lock in the cash value of their deferred compensation: by selling.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
County custody on June 2, and she remains jailed in lieu of $2 million as the case proceeds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Taylor and Ivy were initially being held in lieu of $250,000 bail each.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
He continued to stare down at her hands in lieu of meeting her eyes, as if he were worried that she’d try to strangle him.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing lieu
The Tempest
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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