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.
  • But deliberations over what the new plaque should say have been charged.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • This will slow the pace of the deliberation, but that is not always a bad thing.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
  • But being faced with a new choice will cause all sorts of deliberation.
    — Roger Martin, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • So, the deliberation was over whether to go now or wait a little bit longer, how to fill out the deal.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Even then, there will be plenty of time for more deliberation.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But in the end, deliberations would only last about three hours.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • He was cleared on both counts by a jury whom the judge praised for its thoughtful deliberation.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
  • After one hour of deliberation, the jurors were ready to call it a night.
    — Joe Barrett, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The verdict was reached after about nine hours of deliberations over two days.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
  • Jurors can’t take copies of video into the deliberation room, view it there, and talk about it frame by frame.
    — Michael Tarm, ajc, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The jury reached its verdict on the third day of deliberations.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
  • No need for weeks of deliberation.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • But at some point during the court's deliberations, Roberts changed his mind.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Her answer prompted the judge to send the jury back to the deliberation room.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • In six hours of deliberations, the jury sent out three questions.
    — John Diedrich, jsonline.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There are new time limits on managers’ deliberations on whether to challenge calls on the field, too.
    — Alva Noë, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And not all of them show evidence of careful deliberation by a man fully in charge of the process.
    — The Editors, National Review, 17 July 2025
  • Trustees voted after around an hour of closed door deliberations.
    — Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The next day, the jury reached its verdict after six hours of deliberation.
    — Vanity Fair, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The jurors could not agree, and the case ended in a hung jury after three days of deliberation.
    — Maya Rao, Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
  • But the deliberations have gone nowhere, and now Oakland is starting over from scratch.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • During 11 hours of deliberation, jurors asked to see two clips of the video.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 7 Jan. 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
  • Its sessions are open to the public and its deliberations are broadcast.
    — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Imax has yet to publicly comment on its deliberations.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • Thus, how much deliberation went into it?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
  • One month later, she was sentenced to death after less than two hours of jury deliberation.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026

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