litigate
verb
R. H. Heindel
Examples of litigate in a Sentence
Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
Your company may all work in a single Notion instance, but everybody has different levels of access to different kinds of stuff, sometimes litigated on a file-by-file basis.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2023
In its nuclear work, the NRDC helped to fund and litigate many suits brought by local groups, such as Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tri Valley CAREs in California, which monitor the Energy Department’s two nuclear-weapons design labs.
—Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
Trump’s defense on Thursday evening filed a new request that Chutkan postpone consideration of a government proposal to address classified evidence in the case and require the special counsel’s office to litigate some of the issues in public, a bid that if granted could delay the trial schedule.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
Estrada noted that some in Delaware already possessed the authority to litigate in Central California.
—Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2023
TikTok videos and Reddit threads are always beckoning me into a cramped seat, asking me to scrutinize random travelers and litigate their disputes.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
Nearly 30 years after California last updated its water quality plan for most of the San Francisco Bay Delta, the state has proposed a bunch of competing, controversial ideas that are still years from being implemented — and probably litigated too.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
There are multiple reasons why a plaintiff or defendant would want a case moved to federal court, said Kenneth Fitzgerald, a longtime business attorney who has litigated cases in both state and federal court.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Latin litigatus, past participle of litigare, from lit-, lis lawsuit + agere to drive — more at agent
1615, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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Latin litigatus, past participle of litigare, from lit-, lis lawsuit + agere to drive
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