How to Use court reporter in a Sentence

court reporter

noun
  • The court reporter, Twyla, picked up on the first ring.
    Emma Copley Eisenberg, Slate Magazine, 22 Mar. 2017
  • The full quotes come courtesy of a court reporter's transcript.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • My mom had been a court reporter, so her notes were more like transcripts.
    Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2021
  • One online group has been set up to help laid-off court reporters.
    Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The court reporter, who would have been stationed a few feet from the judge, was in a courthouse office.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Spears was interrupted once by the judge and once by the court reporter.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2021
  • Again there was no court reporter to make a record of the conversation.
    Michael R. Sisak, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
  • The jury was brought back into the court for the court reporter to read the conversation.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The court reporter told him Ingrid Bergman was his best witness, Bruno said.
    Maryjo Webster, Star Tribune, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The college was found to have lied about the amount of time required to complete its training to become a court reporter.
    Collin Binkley, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • The 20-year-old pop star has conquered the world by singing about unruly emotions with the precision of a court reporter.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There was no court reporter present to take a transcript of the conversation.
    Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 11 July 2019
  • Still, her sight hasn’t recovered in her left eye, which forced her to retire from her job as a court reporter.
    Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The defense said that Richardson named the child, buried her and placed flowers over the grave, according to the Journal-News court reporter.
    Fox News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • State law also requires the session to be recorded by a court reporter.
    Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Beridon's court reporter, Janet Haas, was in an office.
    Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The court reporter spent about an hour reading the testimony on Dec. 7.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • So was everybody in the courtroom—not just the judge, but the court reporter, the bailiff, and the juvenile prosecutor.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 4 July 2017
  • Judge interrupts, asking Spears to slow down her speech so court reporter can keep up.
    Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 24 June 2021
  • Sean Ey’s left hand clicks a computer keyboard with the adroitness of a court reporter taking notes.
    Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Attorneys and the judge huddled in a corner — without a court reporter present.
    Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • The court reporter walked back into the deliberating room and read the passages.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
  • But court reporters, who make an official transcript of the proceedings, have a front-row seat.
    Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The findings of the court reporter study have sparked debate over the possible use of dialect interpreters.
    Cassie Owens, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • The testimony would be read back to them by the court reporter, and include statements from all four days that Almena was on stand.
    Megan Cassidy, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Ramos in 2012 sued the newspaper and the court reporter who wrote the column for defamation as well as invasion of privacy.
    NBC News, 29 June 2018
  • Roman’s father worked as a salesman, her mother as a court reporter.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • During one of his displays, Motta faced Judge Donald Tegeler and the court reporter and held out the gun so it was pointed toward them.
    Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Courts have tried to triage the problem by reserving available court reporters for the most important cases, such as felony trials.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Committee lawyers requested that the survivors’ statements not be transcribed by a court reporter.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024

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