A judge asked our group of potential jurors whether anyone should be excused, and one man raised his hand.
“I can’t hear out of my left ear,” the man told the judge.
“Can you hear out of your right ear?” the judge asked. The man nodded his head.
“You’ll be allowed to serve on the jury,” the judge declared. “We only listen to one side of the case at a time.”
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potential
You use potential to say that someone or something is capable of developing into the particular kind of person or thing mentioned.
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jurors
A juror is a member of a jury.
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declared
If you declare that something is true, you say that it is true in a firm, deliberate way. You can also declare an attitude or intention. (WRITTEN)