arraign
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Speaking to local media, Youngblood said he had no one who could arraign the supervisor within a limited time frame, but Kern County prosecutors dispute that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
O’Connor said federal law and rules of criminal procedure “require this Court to publicly arraign Boeing and permit the crime victims’ representatives to be heard at or in advance of the proceeding.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
The prosecutor noted the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic could put a snag in efforts to arraign Schulte on the new charges and start his retrial as soon as possible, however.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2020
Hägglund wants to arraign capitalism for a similar asceticism.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
He could see no reason, he said, why gentlemen were suffered to come every day to the House merely to threaten and arraign the conduct of their superiors.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,
From Time Magazine Archive
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At 4.15 the judge sent for the Clerk of arraigns, Mr. Avory, who proceeded to his lordship’s private room.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
Her counsel, dreading another scene like that already recorded, had bent across the table and warned the clerk of arraigns beforehand of what the plea would be.
From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
The couple were arraigned Sept. 16 and released.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Baby was arraigned Thursday and ordered held without bail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He is due to be arraigned at a county court on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He hadn’t been arraigned by Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
They arraigned him before a justice, but by that time your grandfather and Mr Coldfield had got there.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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“It’s been arraigning — I mean, raining,” Mr. Conway tweeted.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Dr Mehmood says there aren't enough police available to "handle all these cases efficiently and judiciously, without arraigning innocent people to complete paperwork and save their jobs".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2020
It is hard to resist the conclusion that Garner, in full maternal mode, is arraigning him for not being more of a man.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Another positive development involves arraigning and prosecuting poachers in courts in the main cities, which are considered less susceptible to corruption than their local counterparts.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 10, 2015
Swift to the shore she flies, complaining; The tempest to her pray'r is deaf; When lo! that orb she's so arraigning, Shines forth, and shows her lover safe.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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