How to Use special master in a Sentence

special master

noun
  • The county will pay for the cost of the special master.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The special master has been working on the case for more than a year.
    Andrea Estes, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The special master would then provide the findings and facts of the case to the justices.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In the event of a deadlock, the Supreme Court would appoint a special master to draw maps and the court would make the final pick.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2019
  • The special master in the Trump case faces an imposing task.
    Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The court has a cartographer and a special master ready to do that.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
  • The special master is slated to turn over her findings to the state Supreme Court Friday.
    Caitlin Conant, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2020
  • How would a judge usually choose a special master in a case like this?
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The courts would be likely to appoint a special master to redraw the district lines.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Lawyers for Trump want the special master's work to continue.
    Eric Tucker, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The special masters then have about 60 days to report their findings to the commission.
    Don Thompson, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
  • The Supreme Court’s action means that the special master in the case and Trump’s legal team will not have access to those documents.
    Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • That image provides a kind of backdrop to the numbers in the special master’s reports.
    STAT, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The court will appoint a special master to redraw the lines, pending appeal.
    Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In Stewart’s case the judge agreed with a defense request to appoint a special master.
    Bloomberg.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Trump’s legal team has said a special master is needed to ensure a fair process.
    Ann E. Marimow and Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • As was the case a decade ago, the court hired Persily as special master and directed him to make minimal changes.
    Mark Pazniokas, courant.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • If the map is deemed to be in violation of the VRA, a special master will be appointed to redraw it.
    Caroline Curran, ABC News, 23 July 2023
  • If the court balks at the revision, the special master could be tasked with redrafting it himself.
    S.m. | New York, The Economist, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Cannon will first need to appoint someone to perform the job of special master.
    Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
  • But the special master sent the case back to the Missouri Supreme Court, and a second execution date was set for August 2017.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The judge in this case, or in the case that the Trump team brought, has appointed a special master to look over all the material that was seized out of Mar-a-Lago.
    ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The high court's ruling paved the way for a special master, appointed by a lower court judge, to craft the new district contours.
    Ryan King, Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Dearie was one of the two candidates Trump's legal team proposed to serve as special master.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Selena will be recording the episodes from her own home kitchen and a special master chef will be joining her to guide her through each recipe.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 6 May 2020
  • This increases the likelihood that the special master will draw a ...
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The special master’s lawyer, William Sinnott, did not respond to a request for comment.
    Andrea Estes, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
  • The special master will determine whether to block DOJ from using the records in its criminal probe.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
  • The city now seeks more than $1 million and the appointment of a special master to oversee the facility.
    Fox News, 10 July 2020
  • Smith had complained to the appeals court that a special master was unnecessary and slowed down the prosecution.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 3 Sep. 2024

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