How to Use extralegal in a Sentence
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Just north of Ketchum, Idaho is Phantom Hill, a scenic stretch of state highway that begs for extralegal speed.
—Basemwasef, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
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To most of us, a declined pointer is asking for more mph, but this one only starts to close on flat at extralegal speeds.
—Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 30 Aug. 2017
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Leapfrogging cars ahead and squirting into gaps in traffic is theme-park fun, and the grunt doesn't tail off at extralegal speeds.
—Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2021
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The sheriff, a lone defender of the rule of law, stands them off, refusing to give in to the mob’s demand for extralegal justice.
—Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2017
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But the idea that Obama and the Democrats were ruling by arbitrary, extralegal means was established on the right as holy writ.
—Kevin Baker, New Republic, 15 Feb. 2018
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This made extralegal violence less necessary for those who hate, for in many cases, the law had their backs.
—Lance Warren, Longreads, 14 Oct. 2017
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But some of those women would travel out of state, and some would end their pregnancies using extralegal means.
—New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
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That’s why lynchings and other extralegal acts of white supremacy were reinforced by the firm hand of the U.S. government, as in the Tulsa Massacre of 1921.
—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2020
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In the spirit of the mythic West, which has always played at the border between legal and extralegal action, Dutton has muscle on one hip and the law on the other.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
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What’s more, while the rules would create a set of legal roadblocks, law enforcement officials say the extralegal pipeline for parts is sure to adapt and thrive.
—New York Times, 14 Nov. 2021
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Far from an isolated event, the extralegal killing was how justice was often meted out in mining camps.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
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Rendition flights are said to be used for the extralegal transfer of prisoners from one country to another.
—Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
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The narrative at the heart of the report — the story of how former President Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election by extralegal means — takes up less than half of the volume.
—Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2022
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Why not find a peaceful but extralegal procedure to make Joe Biden president right this second?
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
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The extralegal death sentence was executed by the white mob within four hours of the killing that Anderson was accused of committing.
—Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
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The message was the third in a series of open letters Rhodes and the Oath Keepers wrote to Trump urging extralegal action following the 2020 presidential election.
—John Woolley, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
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Huge carbon ceramic brake discs slow things down from extralegal speeds at eyeball-straining rates.
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2020
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There’s a fire and an election call that, while not carrying the force of law, would determine the narrative advantage in a legal (or extralegal) showdown.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 15 May 2023
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Trump’s decision is a relatively modest way to roll back what is clearly an extralegal act.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 Sep. 2017
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First, companies need to renew their pledges to withhold funding from politicians who reject the results of the 2020 election and who pursue extralegal means to tilt future outcomes.
—Michael Posner, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
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Neuwirth gets the lowdown on the low life by becoming a resident of four of the most happening squatopolises: the thriving extralegal pockets of Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Rio.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2004
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Rights groups say the detentions are arbitrary and extralegal, sweeping up huge numbers of people on scant evidence.
—Austin Ramzy, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
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But all those other norms still need shoring up — and Biden hasn’t offered much in the way of new laws or regulations to deter a future president from asserting extralegal powers.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2022
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The archetypal example is the lynch mob, in which a group of enraged whites in the segregationist South would hunt down a Black man and exact extralegal punishment, for crimes real or imagined, with a noose.
—Damon Linker, The Week, 15 Dec. 2021
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Space is generous for front- and rear-seat occupants alike, and the levels of comfort and refinement remain impressive even when cruising at extralegal speeds.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2021
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Agencies should not be able to interfere with the exercise of free speech and other constitutional rights in secretive and extralegal ways.
—Brent Skorup, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2017
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When Apple Daily was under siege, Mr. Clifford witnessed the impact of the government’s extralegal actions.
—L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
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Deprived of a legal means of keeping their neighborhoods white, some racists resorted to extralegal methods, which is where the horror really begins.
—New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
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Churchill’s vision was extralegal; no nation in the world openly allowed a foreign power to run an intelligence service on domestic soil.
—Beverly Gage, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
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The incident has been recorded by a child nicknamed Buzz (Al-Hassan Ly), who flies a drone camera, and the three cops, both fearing the possibility of a riot and fearing for their own reputations, conduct an extralegal chase of that kid.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2020
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