Sample Sentences for
deposition
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deposition as in:  gave her deposition

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    Jake could envision her deposition in the near future, in a room full of hyped-up lawyers all clamoring for the floor and the chance to grill her about what she and Mr. Hubbard did and did not do.  (source)
    deposition = formal questioning of a witness before a trial
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    There were a few depositions but no judgment of relief.  (source)
    depositions = pretrial questioning of witnesses
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    Andrew Judson sat at the large oak desk in his study reading depositions for an upcoming trial.  (source)
    depositions = transcripts of pretrial questioning of witnesses
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    That you were the one who restored the Deposition for the Vatican Museums a few years ago.†  (source)
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    Even Nathaniel Blackwood quit stopping by except when hearings and depositions required his presence.  (source)
    depositions = pretrial questioning of witnesses
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    The atmosphere is disappearing through deposition, which means it's near absolute zero above.†  (source)
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    My idea of a graceful retirement does not encompass six or seven years of hearings and depositions.†  (source)
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    , all she'd had to do was give a deposition under oath to their lawyer.†  (source)
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    Depositions.†  (source)
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    They have been kept for years in pill boxes, and yet on subjecting them to moisture, have crawled about appearing as well as ever ...The shell may be broken, and even portions of it removed, and yet after a certain lapse of time the injured parts will be repaired by a deposition of shelly matter at the fractured parts.†  (source)
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    When Judge Joseph Wapner, most famous for being the judge on The People's Court television show, ended up refereeing the depositions, Moore figured no one would take the case seriously.†  (source)
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    The servant instantly showed it to one of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended.†  (source)
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    You subpoenaed documents and took depositions and pored over court records until you had put together a detailed and precise accounting of each stage in the deadly quarrel.†  (source)
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A weather ballon is mistaken for a flying saucer, a bear is mistaken for Bigfoot, an archaeological find is discovered to have been moved to its current location hundreds or thousands of years after its original deposition.  (source)
deposition = placement
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