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adjudicate

[uh-joo-di-keyt] / əˈdʒu dɪˌkeɪt /


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Critics argued that it flew in the face of innocent-before-proven-guilty parameters and that the job of police was to investigate, not adjudicate.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

Letting U.S. courts adjudicate foreign torts also creates a “danger of unwarranted judicial interference in the conduct of foreign policy,” she writes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

“How would it work? How would you adjudicate these cases?”

From Salon Apr. 1, 2026

If the lien was entered incorrectly, you can file a motion to strike or adjudicate the lien in court.

From MarketWatch Mar. 11, 2026

This enterprise required that certain social and technical preconditions be met: the existence of reliable methods of communication, a common body of expert knowledge and an acknowledged group of experts able to adjudicate disputes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

This week’s ruling, however, supports a November 2025 decision by the Faculty Hearing Committee, an independent board that investigates and adjudicates disputes involving faculty members.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

Meanwhile, the case was about to reach a United Nations agency that adjudicates copyright disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 22, 2025

Tax Court routinely adjudicates highly technical disputes between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service, clarifying ambiguities in law and practice through published opinions.

From Barron's Oct. 13, 2025

For instance, the bar nominates candidates to the board that adjudicates lawyers’ misconduct, and helps to set the board’s budget.

From Slate Apr. 24, 2025

Every villa or borough throughout the province also possesses its municipal council, and in thinly-populated districts the inhabitants choose every four years a justice of the peace, who adjudicates in small disputes between neighbours.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

Notably, it has not been adjudicated whether or not the FCC has crossed the line into jawboning.

From Salon Jul. 10, 2026

India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge was found to have adjudicated on a property dispute using fake judgements generated by artificial intelligence.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

“It could be adjudicated expeditiously, or it could be just determining that they also agree that there was no criminal intent in the chair’s testimony at the banking committee that I participated in,” he said.

From MarketWatch Jan. 30, 2026

Rare disputes have historically been adjudicated in Article III courts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

Though not lawyers, these men presented cases and then adjudicated them.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

A federal court in Texas may not stop a federal court in Rhode Island from adjudicating a case by issuing a glorified restraining order against the parties.

From Slate May 19, 2026

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

But the countries have traded allegations of ceasefire breaches, and analysts say a comprehensive peace pact adjudicating the territorial dispute at the core of the conflict remains elusive.

From Barron's Nov. 10, 2025

The report states it has made "substantial progress with the process of adjudicating planholders' submitted claims".

From BBC Sep. 23, 2024

But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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