Thesaurus results for MAGISTRATES

magistrates

noun

plural of magistrate

as in judges

a public official having authority to decide questions of law chose to take their case before the local magistrate

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Recent Examples of magistrates Italian magistrates accused Egyptian authorities of withholding key information requested through international legal channels, an allegation Cairo rejected. — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026 In August 2025, city officials laid off the five parking magistrates who reviewed the online disputes and shut the system down in September. — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2026 At a hearing this week, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin asked the parties to identify two potential magistrates who could oversee mediation by next Wednesday. — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026 Now, under the law named after her, magistrates and judges in North Carolina must be stricter when setting release conditions for people charged with violent crimes. — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026 Of the 931 federal judges and magistrates who responded, only 15 had ever fielded a challenge to audiovisual evidence as a deepfake. — Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 In 16th-century Italy, gamblers could wager on the election of civic magistrates and the outcome of papal conclaves. — Parker Bach, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 Petro did not participate in the attack, which left several guerrillas and around half the high court's magistrates dead. — Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026 When are magistrates going to keep bad guys behind bars? — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Mar. 2026

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Nobody seriously argues that the gap proves our police, prosecutors, judges, and juries are biased against men.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
The California Attorney General’s Office, in a statement, said it was disappointed by the decision and reviewing the opinion from the judges.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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Trump’s claims have been rejected by the courts and even since his return to the White House in 2025 no evidence of widespread fraud has been surfaced.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
And unlike state authorities who can be sued for civil rights violations in state courts, federal law enforcement authorities are generally shielded from such lawsuits based on legal precedents.

— Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 2026

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