as in to decide
to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)
his version of what had happened was generally adjudged to be completely fictitious
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Recent Examples of adjudge
Referee Clement Turpin adjudged that Eric Garcia was the last defender when Alexander Sorloth went to ground under his challenge, and so his yellow card was upgraded to red.
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Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
There was a nervy finale at San Siro as Nikola Vlasic pulled one back from the penalty spot after Pavlovic was adjudged to have dragged down Simeone.
—ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
Others may not be adjudged to need inpatient treatment, but still need significant support along the road to recovery.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
The University of Oregon alumnus was adjudged to have erred while moving through a gap between Germany’s Robert Farken and Stefan Nillessen late in the heat, with an appeal by USA Track & Field denied.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
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Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
There was a nervy finale at San Siro as Nikola Vlasic pulled one back from the penalty spot after Pavlovic was adjudged to have dragged down Simeone.
—ABC News, 21 Mar. 2026
Others may not be adjudged to need inpatient treatment, but still need significant support along the road to recovery.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
The University of Oregon alumnus was adjudged to have erred while moving through a gap between Germany’s Robert Farken and Stefan Nillessen late in the heat, with an appeal by USA Track & Field denied.
—Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudge
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That April, Valerii decided to sell his Moskvitch in Kyiv.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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By the time Claudia Martínez added a fourth in the 75th minute, Audi Field was buzzing, the result long decided.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The exact reasons are often left vague, and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Forensic investigators will determine whether the shooting was accidental, police said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Dante Pride, who represented Evans in his lawsuit that the city settled last year, did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment on Evans’ behalf.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Ultimately, Hulk settled all litigation against Gawker Media for $31 million in November 2016, per ABC News.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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DeSantis also said Wednesday that Asian Americans had faced discrimination in university admissions and that people should be judged on their merits not their demographic backgrounds.—
Mike Schneider,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Two umpires from the Japanese Table Tennis Association judged the games.—
Matt O’Brien,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The memo also argued that the parents didn’t have standing to sue, and that the courtroom wasn’t a proper place to adjudicate the issue.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Apr. 2026
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Alma Allen‘s pavilion for the United States at the 2026 Venice Biennale has become a proxy fight over politics, process, and cultural authority—questions the artist himself has little interest in adjudicating.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The Google mass arbitration may be the first to seek to represent corporate plaintiffs, as most of the group legal proceedings to date have sought to arbitrate consumer or labor-related claims.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Khalid Hamideh, a local attorney who has worked with the tribunal, said the group arbitrates in civil family matters as well as in contractual disputes.—
Isabella Volmert,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Adjudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjudge. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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