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CBS had argued Trump's gripes had no merit well before he filed the lawsuit, arguing in a sternly worded letter last week that Trump has no basis to sue or to ask for a transcript of their interview with Harris.

Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage.

He took me aside and said sternly, “You can’t pussyfoot it.”

“I’m saying she certainly did,” Hume said sternly.

It did not send any athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, after the country shut itself off from the world even more sternly than usual due to the Covid-19 pandemic.