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law involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client pro bono work a pro bono case
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Recent Examples of pro bono An architecture firm will offer $20,000 in pro bono services for a nonprofit in Texas. —
Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026 Pathways to Citizenship recently recognized Caroline Wang, a senior at the University of California, San Diego, as Volunteer of the Month for her work supporting pro bono and low cost legal services for immigrant families across San Diego County. —News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 The Brewers have an advocate working for them pro bono to appeal their Medicaid application denial. —Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026 The measure also authorizes the city's attorneys and solicitor to volunteer their time on a pro bono basis to represent residents who are involved in immigration cases. —Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pro bono
Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026 Pathways to Citizenship recently recognized Caroline Wang, a senior at the University of California, San Diego, as Volunteer of the Month for her work supporting pro bono and low cost legal services for immigrant families across San Diego County. —News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 The Brewers have an advocate working for them pro bono to appeal their Medicaid application denial. —Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 12 Mar. 2026 The measure also authorizes the city's attorneys and solicitor to volunteer their time on a pro bono basis to represent residents who are involved in immigration cases. —Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pro bono
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The bulls claim that trend justifies today’s valuations, and that EPS can keep rolling in double-digits while national income trudges at a nominal 5% or so.— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
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Funds routed through weakly regulated financial centers, often under nominal compliance regimes, help seed narratives designed to divide Western societies and undermine political cohesion.— Gaurav Srivastava, The Washington Examiner, 19 Apr. 2026
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Does a user keep expressing linguistic markers throughout a given conversation?— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.— Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
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Among those with in five shots of the lead are former Masters champion Patrick Reed, despite having to settle for a 72, and Patrick Cantlay, who opened the Masters with a 77 and became the first player in seven years to play bogey-free two straight days with rounds of 67-66.— Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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