litigant
Example Sentences
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It has told every future court, and every future litigant, exactly what its assurances are worth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
What if the judiciary treated the federal government itself as a vexatious litigant?
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
The judge said it was "most unsatisfactory" that a litigant would attack the jury and accused him of disregarding the court rules.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
Ridley-Thomas’ appellate case marks Watford’s first time appearing as a litigant before his former colleagues since he left the bench in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024
On the occasion of a dispute between two of his vassals about the boundaries of a manor, the defeated litigant bribed one of Nobunaga's principal staff-officers to appeal for reversal of the judgment.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
