How to Use defamation in a Sentence
defamation
noun
- The article was full of lies and defamations.
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Walker has denied the report and is threatening to sue the Daily Beast for defamation.
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Zach Everson,
Forbes,
5 Oct. 2022
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Government lawyers moved to substitute the U.S. government, which cannot be sued for defamation, in Trump's place as the defendant.
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Kevin McCoy,
USA TODAY,
19 Oct. 2022
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The defamation lawsuit alleges that the newspaper did not verify the social media claims, which were false and designed to sway voters, the president’s father said in several statements.
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Reuters,
NBC News,
5 Nov. 2024
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That could open the door to defamation claims, lawyers aid.
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Meredith Mandell,
NBC News,
11 Oct. 2017
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Unsworth sued Musk for defamation but lost the case in 2019.
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Makena Kelly,
The Verge,
2 Oct. 2023
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The firm has filed a defamation suit against the researcher in Hong Kong.
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Bloomberg.com,
2 Nov. 2017
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Unsworth sued him for defamation, but Musk won the case.
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Courtney Vinopal,
Quartz,
14 Apr. 2022
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Bauer had sued Hill for defamation and in the process obtained the video.
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Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Oct. 2023
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In the end, both Depp and Heard were found liable for defamation.
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Zoe Christen Jones,
CBS News,
7 June 2022
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In this movie, Mike and Marcus are smacked in the face with a defamation case.
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Kaely Monahan,
The Arizona Republic,
5 June 2024
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Keisel and his wife filed suit against Westbrook and the Jazz for defamation.
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Jack Greiner,
The Enquirer,
18 June 2021
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His claims are why Carroll brought the defamation case.
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Kaelan Deese,
Washington Examiner,
4 May 2023
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The suit accuses the Met and Gelb of defamation and breach of contract.
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Jennifer Peltz,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Mar. 2018
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Trump appears to be struggling to line up a bond in the defamation case as well.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
29 Feb. 2024
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None of the three law firms that have worked for Tesla on the defamation case would comment.
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Russ Mitchell Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Dec. 2020
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Fox News had attempted to get the defamation case thrown out of court.
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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani,
The New Republic,
31 Mar. 2023
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But that's not defamation -- that's a guilty conscience.
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Hannah Karp,
Billboard,
9 Feb. 2018
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The company has filed defamation lawsuits over some of the claims that have been made.
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Becky Bohrer,
Anchorage Daily News,
11 Dec. 2021
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So who is Randeep Hothi, anyway, and what was the defamation suit about?
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Russ Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2023
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Sobol has lost track of how many times Prigozhin has sued her and her colleagues for defamation.
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Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2021
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Unsworth sued for defamation and lost) and politicians.
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Richard J. Chang,
Forbes,
25 June 2022
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For several months, the defamation suit wound its way through a state court in New York.
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BostonGlobe.com,
8 June 2021
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David Bernstein, the bartender, then filed a defamation suit against Lebeouf.
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Jack Greiner,
Cincinnati.com,
6 Oct. 2017
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Depp sued Heard for defamation over a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN,
20 Dec. 2022
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Proving a defamation case in the United States is a tall order.
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Robert Hackett,
Fortune,
27 Nov. 2019
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As a result of those comments, King sued Calvert for defamation.
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al,
20 Dec. 2022
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The lyrics led Nelson to file a $11 million defamation lawsuit against her son.
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Emily Weaver,
Peoplemag,
12 Dec. 2023
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Daniels also tried to sue Trump in 2018 for defamation, but the lawsuit was dismissed.
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Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
7 May 2024
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The network would settle a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
4 Nov. 2024
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