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Six example sentences with proceedings, each labelled with its topic.
The proceedings opened with three hours of motions before either side called a single witness.
Law
Bankruptcy proceedings ran for eleven months, and creditors were paid only after the court approved the final schedule.
Business
Newspapers printed the proceedings in full, so readers followed each day of the trial from the transcript itself.
History
The impeachment proceedings ran for six weeks, and the final vote came late on a Friday night.
Politics
Creditors opened insolvency proceedings against the lender, and the court froze its accounts that same afternoon.
Finance
In Bleak House the proceedings in Chancery outlast every claimant, which was exactly the point Dickens wanted to make.
Literature
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