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The settlement was announced on Wednesday in the middle of a highly-anticipated trial, where Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg was expected to testify.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Meta founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had been expected to testify as well.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
In a sixth-floor penthouse, the Future Fund team met with Bankman-Fried and the confidantes who would later testify against him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Two other alleged co-conspirators, Keith Jones and Kacey “OTF Jam” Hester, have taken plea deals and are set to testify against Banks, Weiner told jurors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He thought about the social worker wanting me to testify on the boy’s behalf.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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But this week, as Warsh testifies before Congress for the first time as Fed chair, he will go before an audience of lawmakers who will want answers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
Congress will also get its first chance to publicly question administration officials under oath about the war when Army Secretary Dan Driscoll testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Terrorist boasting testifies to our own moral decline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
This is a losing battle by definition, one that testifies to the nihilistic self-hatred and appetite for self-destruction that Baudrillard observed in 2002.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026
Covering more than fifty encryption systems, the book testifies to the doggedness and ingenuity of Elizebeth and her team.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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When Anaheim sued the Angels over the 2005 name change, city-commissioned experts testified in court that the Anaheim name was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the city over the life of the lease.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I've said some stupid things, but sometimes you have to shake the internet to get noticed," he testified about his online statements, according to CBS.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“The Navy wanted from the Italians all the pictures they could possibly get of every port of Sicily, of every channel,” Meyer Lansky, another notorious gangster, later testified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Ladd testified that the three men authorities allege were in the Cadillac with Davis are now dead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I am quite sure I didn’t say to him that the president had doubts about Dr. Oppenheimer simply because it was not true,” he testified.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The trial, which was taking place in Oakland, Calif., was in its second week and Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, had begun testifying Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Days before the trial, Meta attempted to block Bejar from testifying, a move that the judge denied.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
It also avoids witnesses appearing publicly and testifying about the bloody circumstances and history of Nick Reiner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At a time when Black people were often prohibited from testifying in court, habeas became a vehicle by which they could testify to the facts underlying their claims.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
He was distressed that I would not be testifying for he had undoubtedly prepared for my cross-examination.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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