How to Use the court of public/world opinion in a Sentence

the court of public/world opinion

noun phrase
  • Both sides have taken a hit in the court of public opinion in the last few years.
    — Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Southwest paid dearly for its sins, and not just in the court of public opinion.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Lamar was declared the victor in the court of public opinion.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
  • Pitt tried to fight back, both in family court and in the court of public opinion.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
  • But dragging him through the court of public opinion like that doesn’t get me anywhere.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 10 July 2025
  • Yet in the court of public opinion, those didn’t really count.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The cable-news blitz had been a bid to head off the indictment in the court of public opinion.
    — Kara Voght, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • But what’s going on in the court of public opinion is disgusting.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Still, Combs lost in the court of public opinion, the attorney added.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
  • Some are still fighting in the court of public opinion, however.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That is, one dash cam clip is not—or shouldn’t be—enough to render a verdict in the court of public opinion on all who serve.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • The rebuke in the court of public opinion and on Capitol Hill was sharp.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Drake’s taken the Kendrick beef from the court of public opinion to actual court.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There’s no doubt that the WGA has the upper hand in the court of public opinion.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
  • But, in the court of public opinion, the entire country is divided.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Both Drake and Lively have taken a beating in the court of public opinion.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 21 Mar. 2025
  • And in the court of public opinion, Statoil would be judged in the future for destroying them now.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • For out there in the courts, and in the court of public opinion, the unchecked maltreatment from rich and famous men remains too much to bear.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
  • In the court of public opinion, acolytes of great architects are rarely treated as legends themselves.
    — David Sokol, Architectural Digest, 23 May 2025
  • But jurists need to focus on their courtrooms, not the court of public opinion, Holmes noted.
    — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That kind of argument is probably not going to hold water in the court of public opinion.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • While both parties were found to have defamed the other, Depp walked away the victor in the court of public opinion.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Coach Shah is maintaining his innocence in the court of public opinion.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Giants’ bottom line needs it — in the wins column, in the dollars and cents column and in the court of public opinion.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The legal profession has been put on trial in real-time, public view, and before the court of public opinion.
    — Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Time will tell if the New York and California courts will hold more sway than the court of public opinion.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In the court of public opinion, Jennifer Crumbley is a damned woman.
    — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 7 Apr. 2024
  • There are a couple of problems here, the first being that this is by no means admissible in either the court of law or the court of public opinion.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Whether or not Tuberville’s blockade was actually a factor, he could well get blamed in the court of public opinion.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The beauty of college basketball is that the champion is decided on the court, rather than the court of public opinion.
    — Dave Skretta, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024

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