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Six example sentences with acquittal, each labelled with its topic.
After six days of deliberation the jury returned an acquittal, and the defendant walked out of the building the same afternoon.
Law
The 1735 acquittal of a New York printer became the case every colonial pamphleteer cited for the next fifty years.
History
Half the film covers the trial, and the acquittal arrives with twenty quiet minutes still left to run.
Movies
The impeachment trial ended in acquittal when the vote fell twelve short of the two-thirds the constitution requires.
Politics
The novel's trial chapters build toward an acquittal that the narrator, an old lawyer, never quite believes was deserved.
Literature
The chief executive's acquittal on the fraud charge came too late to save the company, which had already been sold.
Business
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