How to Use jurisprudence in a Sentence

jurisprudence

noun
  • This should be one of the most exciting times for free speech jurisprudence and rules.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021
  • That would mean decades of right-wing jurisprudence, no matter what voters want.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 June 2021
  • People need to draft those bills in ways that just are consistent with the jurisprudence.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Our Bill of Rights and jurisprudence have ensured this.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The case has had a long life in jurisprudence, but investors should not lose sight of the legal and economic lessons here.
    — Dr. Philip Fischer, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Yet the arc of a Justice Jackson’s jurisprudence could be long.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Kavanaugh’s jurisprudence will be a corrective to this trend.
    — Jack Goldsmith, Time, 12 July 2018
  • That would preserve the rest of the court’s First Amendment jurisprudence.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Generally, that’s going to be the case in terms of jurisprudence.
    — Dara Lind, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • This court would sustain the Brown jurisprudence in later cases.
    — Bryan Greene, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
  • In a world where jurisprudence is unmoored, what will future generations even learn in law school?
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The ruling shook American jurisprudence around firearms to the core.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The best part of this short primer is his history of free speech jurisprudence in the United States.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
  • The jurisprudence of some Supreme Court justices can be summed up in a single, favorite word.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • His jurisprudence reflects the same love for those ideals and for the Constitution.
    — Nicole Stelle Garnett, National Review, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But as a matter of law, gun jurisprudence has not been turned upside down, as Justice Stevens feared.
    — Joseph Blocher and Eric Ruben, Vox, 14 June 2018
  • This has always been a key question in both the legislation and jurisprudence on public health.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The jurisprudence of the decades since has, fortunately, supported more speech, not less.
    — Isaac Saul, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The country’s position on segregation had changed, and his jurisprudence would need to change as well.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • But to act like Brett Kavanaugh said anything about his jurisprudence on birth control at the hearing is a lie.
    — Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • No one can predict the next frontiers in criminal jurisprudence, but a decent bet would be on issues raised in the white-collar space.
    — Andrey Spektor, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Under their rule, Afghanistan had no parliament, no elections and jurisprudence was based on Sharia law.
    — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The justice also has a forthcoming book on his jurisprudence due out in October.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But after 13 years on the court as chief justice, Roberts, 63, is fairly set in his jurisprudence.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • The first is jurisprudence, however extreme.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Many of us think of this as Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first equality jurisprudence case.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • What followed was a landmark 1910 ruling that would help shape a century’s worth of jurisprudence.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 28 June 2018
  • Karadzic’s lawyer, Peter Robinson, urged the appeals judges not to depart from the jurisprudence.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The Essential Scalia offers a succinct overview of the justice’s jurisprudence in his own words.
    — William H. Pryor Jr., National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Leo says Justice Thomas saw parallels between how the church grew and how to build a body of conservative jurisprudence.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022

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