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litigate

verb as in bring matter before court of law

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By the time it’s litigated, the money will already be in circulation — and that will be that.

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“The administration might say, ‘While we are litigating this case, having this injunction in place is irreparably harming us in a way we can’t recover from, so in the interim, please stay this injunction.’”

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“And the cases that people litigate . . . they only bother to litigate the things that they’re really, truly disagreeing about that they feel passionately about. And then those are the cases that we see.”

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The ruling Monday gave authorities the go-ahead to continue operating with those tactics, while the issues are litigated in the lower courts.

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These matters are being addressed through the appropriate channels, and it would be inappropriate to litigate them in the press.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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