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need to deliberate
Definition
to think about or discuss — especially with great care
- When I'm finished, you will retire to the jury room and begin your deliberations.p. 623.4
- Jake, Portia, and Harry Rex went straight to the jury deliberation room, which was empty at the moment.p. 488.7
- The truth was that Judge Atlee did a fine job of eliminating those who might possibly begin deliberations with preconceived notions or prejudices.p. 499.1
- You will be allowed to take all documents and exhibits back to the jury room when you begin your deliberations.p. 528.1
- At 1:30, the jurors reassembled in the deliberation room, and there was not a single word uttered about the trial.p. 619.4
- The longer I talk, the more distance I put between him and your deliberations, so I'll be brief.p. 619.7
- There were no guidelines on jury deliberations.p. 624.2
- It was a two-beer deliberation.p. 625.9
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- Lucien had deliberately fallen back into a twangier version of speech, in hopes that it might lure old Lonny here into the same habit.p. 505.1
- Jake took a deep breath and deliberately considered the scenario.p. 26.7
- Deliberately, she said, "When it was just the two of us, I called him Seth because that's what he wanted.p. 135.4
- "Hello, Governor," Jake said in a deliberate effort to resume hard feelings.p. 167.5
- Slowly, deliberately, he said, "You were a prosecutor, Rufus.p. 169.0
- This was a deliberate effort to start the spin because Ozzie was also controlling damage.p. 377.3
- There was no deliberate effort to kill, nothing premeditated.p. 378.5
- Nothing about those experiences would alter their ability to deliberate in the case at hand.p. 491.0
- Deliberately, he said, "What?"p. 502.1
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