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adjudication

[uh-joo-di-key-shuhn] / əˌdʒu dɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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Many individuals awaiting asylum adjudication get work authorization.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

They will report those to a student-run honor committee for adjudication.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

Barton Mackey, a spokesperson for the Social Security Administration, confirmed in a series of emailed statements that the Trump administration is working on what he called “improvements to the disability adjudication process.”

From Salon Nov. 2, 2025

According to government disclosures and outside reporting, the administration is contemplating two major changes to disability standards, which it describes generally as “improvements to the disability adjudication process.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 22, 2025

But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

"USCIS's hold on adjudications cannot be attributed to anything that these individuals did wrong; rather, it arises solely by the happenstance of their birth," the judge said.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

“Today’s FTC can bring civil enforcement suits against private parties, promulgate binding rules, issue final orders in administrative adjudications, and investigate potential violations of the law.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

Series producer Clare Parody frequently has to make instinctive adjudications when, as is often the case, a contestant gives an answer that seems a marginal call, but isn't.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2024

Of the 29 federally recognized tribes in our state, 23 have incarcerated members with one or more juvenile felony adjudications.

From Seattle Times Feb. 9, 2024

What their justice? the partial adjudications of venal magistrates.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas




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