as in nominal
law
involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client
pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono
Twice in this story, Nadia describes her desire to become an assassin—not a killer for hire but someone who kills bad guys pro bono.
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Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Alliance Defending Freedom of Scottsdale, Arizona, represented the school district pro bono.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
Attorney Lewis Morgan Porter Jr. was a former Marine who for more than two decades did pro bono legal work for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, a national organization that awards $10 million in scholarships each year.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
ProPublica is represented in the suit by its deputy general counsel, Sarah Matthews, and by pro bono attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.
—Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2025
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Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Alliance Defending Freedom of Scottsdale, Arizona, represented the school district pro bono.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
Attorney Lewis Morgan Porter Jr. was a former Marine who for more than two decades did pro bono legal work for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, a national organization that awards $10 million in scholarships each year.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
ProPublica is represented in the suit by its deputy general counsel, Sarah Matthews, and by pro bono attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.
—Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pro bono
Adjective
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.—
Will Oremus,
Washington Post,
5 June 2023
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At any given moment, 2 million to 10 million Ukrainians have been living in freezing temperatures without electricity.—
Maham Javaid,
Washington Post,
22 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Call the Wild Flower Hotline, which provides free weekly updates on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California.—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Mar. 2025
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Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free newsletter to get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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