How to Use extrajudicial in a Sentence

extrajudicial

adjective
  • Man-su, of course, goes an extrajudicial route in his killings.
    — Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2026
  • To be sure, none of those statements called for extrajudicial killings or any other war crime.
    — Anne Barnard, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Although the white groups are extrajudicial, many have sought to align themselves with police.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2020
  • And when survival is your primary end, you are tempted to use any means to achieve it, even extrajudicial ones.
    — NBC News, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Concerns have been raised that the latest anti-drug drives are a front for a campaign of extrajudicial killings.
    — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • His war on drugs has taken the lives of thousands upon thousands in extrajudicial killings.
    — Orange County Register Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
  • Of course, the extrajudicial killing did not signal good things about the competence of the forces that would try to rule Libya.
    — Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Some victims belonged to gangs, some were innocent, but all were extrajudicial killings.
    — Matt Rivers, ABC News, 31 July 2023
  • But these extrajudicial processes failed to offer due process to the accused.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • This was all extrajudicial, this was all happening outside of the purview of law enforcement.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The hanging of Afkari was widely viewed as an extrajudicial killing for his protest against regime corruption.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Those teams are feared by many Afghans and have been implicated in extrajudicial killings of civilians.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
  • But human-rights groups claim that the number of extrajudicial killings may be as high as 30,000.
    — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Yet attempts to root out extrajudicial killing run up against a phalanx of incentives supporting it.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But the asset freezes, which took place with no court hearings and no due process, are an extrajudicial confiscation of property.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The suit alleges that the government carried out extrajudicial killings.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The Amazonas state police have long been accused of extrajudicial killings and unlawful raids.
    — Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 11 June 2022
  • They have been accused of extrajudicial killings, rape, and torturing people held in the country's network of gulags.
    — Abigail Hauslohner and Alex Horton The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Crime has been a longtime scourge in Rio, along with human-rights abuses and extrajudicial killings by security forces.
    — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
  • They are being sued for war crimes, crimes against humanity and attempted extrajudicial killing.
    — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Since taking office last year, Duterte has waged a bloody war on drugs that has left thousands dead and that human-rights groups say is a campaign of extrajudicial killings.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 16 May 2017
  • In Pakistan, blasphemy laws have often been used by groups of mobs to exact extrajudicial justice.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • The Myanmar military has been accused of rape, extrajudicial killings and arson of villages.
    — Eli Meixler, Time, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Since the start of the ceasefire, videos of extrajudicial killings by Hamas in public squares began circulating online.
    — Jennifer Griffin , Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Opponents of the murals have argued that the subject matter has no place in a courthouse because of its scenes of extrajudicial punishment.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 26 Nov. 2021
  • And despite huge recent purges of officers, many on suspicion of drug-trafficking and extrajudicial killing, no one trusted the force.
    — Delphine Schrank, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The report warns that the number of mob lynchings is growing, as are the instances of extrajudicial killings by the Haitian national police.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025
  • There is no place in it for the internment camps, extrajudicial retributions and other horrors Trump promised on the campaign trail.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Rappler documented the extrajudicial killings of the drug war and analyzed the evolution and impact of fake news in the country.
    — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 14 June 2020

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