How to Use the court of public/world opinion in a Sentence

the court of public/world opinion

noun phrase
  • There’s no doubt that the WGA has the upper hand in the court of public opinion.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • The cable-news blitz had been a bid to head off the indictment in the court of public opinion.
    Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • But as is always the case with Trump, the court of public opinion matters too.
    Eric Tucker, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2023
  • But as is always the case with Mr. Trump, the court of public opinion matters, too.
    Eric Tucker, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2023
  • While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
  • When it’s picked apart in the court of public opinion and dismissed by an untold number of people?
    Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But what’s going on in the court of public opinion is disgusting.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • What does the public think? Where the reforms don’t seem to be struggling, however, is the court of public opinion.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2024
  • But jurists need to focus on their courtrooms, not the court of public opinion, Holmes noted.
    Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the court of public opinion, Jennifer Crumbley is a damned woman.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The gap between the court of law and the court of public opinion was wide What was clear Tuesday was that there was a legal track and, separately, a campaign track to the day’s events.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
  • The beauty of college basketball is that the champion is decided on the court, rather than the court of public opinion.
    Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Green said a lawsuit could result if Trump’s defense strategies in the court of public opinion cross the line into defamation.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The point Sandoval appears to be trying to make is that he has been unfairly railroaded by the court of public opinion.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Throughout the defamation trial, Donald Trump eroded the distinction between the court and the court of public opinion.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Whether or not Tuberville’s blockade was actually a factor, he could well get blamed in the court of public opinion.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • Yet harsh criticism of Israel’s campaign in Gaza could further dent its image in the court of public opinion.
    Josef Federman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • This kind of manipulation can be strategic, as well as useful in the court of public opinion.
    Kelly M. Greenhill, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2015
  • From judges in wigs, to lawyers putting on a show to win over the jury (and the court of public opinion), there is something naturally theatrical about these spaces.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2023
  • All say private and career anxieties followed as their accounts were ridiculed and challenged in the court of public opinion.
    Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • But good journalism, operating in the court of public opinion, can sometimes do what is beyond the power of justice and the courts.
    Larry Welborn, Orange County Register, 5 July 2024
  • Manafort was convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud in 2018 (as well as of having terrible taste in jackets by the court of public opinion).
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • President Trump has already been acquitted in the court of public opinion.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
  • In the court of public opinion, both sides make their case for following international law.
    Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • That lack of consideration for major investors was part of a lack of consensus building over the firing, and that played into the board’s loss in the court of public opinion.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But for now, at least, the idea of a lab leak seems to have prevailed in the court of public opinion: Two recent polls show that roughly two-thirds of Americans believe that Covid probably started in a lab.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Come September, all that will matter is the court of public opinion, as Verzuz does not declare an official winner to their battles.
    Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 9 May 2023
  • After winning an early round in the court of public opinion on behalf of Davis outside the actual courtroom, Goodman withdrew from the case.
    John Smith, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Even if reasonable answers can be found for those questions, the technology would also have to survive the court of public opinion.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'the court of public/world opinion.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: