How to Use deliberation in a Sentence

deliberation

noun

• After hours of deliberation, the council came to a decision.
• She spoke to the audience with clarity and deliberation.
• Jury deliberations lasted two days.
• The jury returned the verdict after less than four hours of deliberation.
  — Quinn Owen and Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2022
• The jury reached its decision after less than three hours of deliberation.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2022
• After twelve hours of deliberation, a jury finds Nichols guilty on all 54 counts.
  — CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• After more than a week of deliberation, a jury found Holmes guilty on four counts of defrauding investors.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2022
• After a day of deliberation, the court announced Friday the jury had reached a verdict.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• Jurors convicted Fortenberry on three counts after less than three hours of deliberation.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 27 Mar. 2022
• The trial will resume Thursday morning with closing arguments and then go to the jury for deliberation.
  — Tessa Duvall, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2022
• The jury reached its decision after several hours of deliberation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• This can pose a dilemma for executives, as research both shows that fast decision-making is vital, but some circumstances require deliberation and care.
  — Kalle Heikkinen, william Kerr, mika Malin, panu Routila, joel Ryynänen, Harvard Business Review, 12 Dec. 2024
• For the first time, there is serious public deliberation on the disparities in health, schooling, access to universities and wealth that persist along racial lines.
  — Aldon Morris, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022
• The decision, on the fifth day of deliberations, came after the jury deadlocked Friday on the more serious charge of manslaughter, leading the judge to dismiss it.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
• The case is now in the hands of the jury for deliberation.
  — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
• Starting Wednesday, the power will shift from the lawyers at the lectern to the jurors in the deliberation room.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 28 May 2024
• But deliberations over what the new plaque should say have been charged.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Ask some of the people who’ve worked with or played alongside Judge and Ohtani, and the answer has more deliberation.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Even so, the jurors found Mr. Ng guilty of all three charges after more than two days of deliberation.
  — Matthew Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• The judge then ordered the jury to resume deliberations in what is known as an Allen charge.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• But being faced with a new choice will cause all sorts of deliberation.
  — Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022
• But after about two hours of deliberation, a jury found Sams, 34, not guilty of all charges this week.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• The trial is expected to end on May 27, when it will be turned over to the jury for deliberation.
  — Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• As the deliberations dragged on, some in Trump's orbit had become convinced that the case had stalled and that charges might never be brought.
  — Jill Colvin, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
• As the deliberations dragged on, some in Trump’s orbit had become convinced that the case had stalled and that charges might never be brought.
  — Jill Colvin, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• The documents that the Senate released detail the deliberations over when and how to announce the deal.
  — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• The split verdict was reached on Monday after almost five hours of deliberations over the course of three days.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 18 Dec. 2023
• What was the deliberation process of deciding which 50 made the final cut?
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2023
• The judge is then expected to charge the jury on Tuesday, followed by the start of deliberations.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 May 2023
• There are new time limits on managers’ deliberations on whether to challenge calls on the field, too.
  — Alva Noë, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023

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