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adjudge, arbitrate, decide, determine, judge, referee, rule (on), settle, umpire
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More resources are needed to adjudicate asylum claims more rapidly, to secure people with pending claims in sustainable and humane ways, and to assist Central American countries in combating the underlying issues that drive people north. — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "The shutdown is intractable because Trump’s wall is ridiculous and Republicans know it," 8 Jan. 2019 Firearm ownership is prohibited for a person who is involuntarily committed to a mental-health facility or who has been adjudicated incompetent to manage his or her affairs, Prince said. — Erin Mccarthy, Philly.com, "Before walking Abington streets with AR-15, man searched the internet, asking 'What weapons were used in Columbine'," 4 May 2018 Federal law already bars people who have been adjudicated mentally ill or committed to institutions from buying firearms. — Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, "In Florida, Extraordinary Obstacles for Changes to Gun Laws," 17 Feb. 2018 Less than preventing crimes, signatures were useful for adjudicating blame. — Rachel Sugar, Vox, "Why are we still signing credit card receipts?," 5 Dec. 2018 The net result is that disputes that normally would have been adjudicated via the public court process are often processed via private arbitration, which generally favors corporations over individuals. — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, "Thousands of Google employees slam execs’ response to sexual misconduct," 1 Nov. 2018 That seems to have been a way that without dragging these two people and their families through the mud, this could have been adjudicated. — Fox News, "Kavanaugh's high school friend reacts to fiery testimony," 28 Sep. 2018 As if being insulted in print by your boss isn’t enough, a federal judge on Thursday threatened to hold the attorney general in contempt of court for deporting a mother and daughter even as their asylum case is being adjudicated. — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, "The Week in Washington: Is the Blue Wave Spooking “Your Favorite President?”," 12 Aug. 2018 Facebook will create an independent oversight body to adjudicate appeals on content moderation issues, the company said today. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Facebook will create an independent oversight group to review content moderation appeals," 15 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'adjudicate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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