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Recent Examples of remand
Reuters,
NBC news,
22 Jan. 2026
The activists have been held on remand – detained without trial or conviction – since their arrests, exceeding the six-month pre-trial custody limit set out by the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales.
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Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
Lori Ann Larocco,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
An appellate court in 2021 ordered the county to reverse and remand its decision, citing that there wasn't enough evidence Ricardo received treatment per statute.
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Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Noun
The trial is among the last of several such major cases, with Chow, the former vice chair of the group, held on remand for more than 1,500 days after being denied bail.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
22 Jan. 2026
The activists have been held on remand – detained without trial or conviction – since their arrests, exceeding the six-month pre-trial custody limit set out by the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales.
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Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
Trade attorneys do expect the case to be sent back to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which would presumably then remand the case to the CIT to decide on how to handle refunds.
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Lori Ann Larocco,
CNBC,
20 Feb. 2026
An appellate court in 2021 ordered the county to reverse and remand its decision, citing that there wasn't enough evidence Ricardo received treatment per statute.
—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remand
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Noncitizens have testified about similar conditions at supposedly temporary ICE detention facilities around the country.
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The administration pivoted last year to new detention tactics and has made fewer courthouse arrests than earlier this year, according to legal experts.
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Jail records show that Alcin, Martinez, Cobas and Putney were all denied bond and remained jailed at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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Also contentious was last year’s jailing of former Trade Minister Thomas Lembong over sugar import permits a decade ago despite no evidence of personal financial gain.
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The poor conditions inside detention centers and the prolonged confinement often compel detainees to give up their quest for a court hearing and opt to leave the country of their own accord.
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Understanding fusion fuel One of the hub’s basic goals is to refine the understanding of inertial confinement fusion (ICF).
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Officials confirmed that one person was detained in connection with the shooting, but did not confirm if the woman was the individual taken into custody.
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Asylum seekers are getting detained at routine immigration check-ins, and cases are getting fast-tracked through the system.
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Glenn Middleton is facing a maximum of 20 years in prison, plus a minimum of five years imprisonment consecutive if found guilty of other charges.
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Those causes carried timeless moral weight that outlasted Gandhi’s assassination and Mandela’s nearly three decades of imprisonment.
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The goal is to eventually close the island to incarcerated individuals in a decarceration plan, replacing it with four other jails in Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn.
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Caleb Crawford was incarcerated in 2016 after indecently touching his cousin, a 12-year-old girl at the time.
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In the movie Invictus, Nelson Mandela refers to the poem by the same name as something that sustained him during his 27 years of incarceration.
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Layne’s group has pushed county leaders to fund a continuous drug addiction treatment program, expanding access for those who need it both during and after incarceration.
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Traditional entertainment journalists, however, were largely confined to public events and lacked similar direct access, underscoring a significant shift in how studios engage with media and promote their content.
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And for the second straight day, those winners were confined to the two Fantasy 5 drawings.
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“Remand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/remand. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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