adjudicates

verb

present tense third-person singular of adjudicate
as in decides
to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute) when we asked the salesclerk to adjudicate our disagreement, she agreed with me that the white shoes looked better

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Recent Examples of adjudicates For those asylum applicants reviewed by USCIS, the officer usually adjudicates the case or refers it to an immigration judge. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026 Pfendler appears to have broken both the previous women's speed record as well as the men's speed record, according to records maintained by Ocean Rowing Society International, which adjudicates ocean-rowing achievements for Guinness World Records. — ABC News, 4 July 2026 The speed at which the system adjudicates cases benefits deserving victims but also abets fraud. — Ike Brannon, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2026 Guest Janine Kovac, in addition to being an author herself, adjudicates submissions for various residencies and is co-director of Litquake’s Lit Crawl. — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026 Another member of his class, Omar Abdelmoity, serves on the university’s Academic Integrity Board, the body that adjudicates cases of cheating, with AI or otherwise. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudicates
  1. decides
  2. determines
  3. settles
  4. arbitrates
  5. judges
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  • So there could be a world where Arteta decides to start them as a pair again.
    — Art de Roché, New York Times, 31 July 2026
  • The job is to define what the seat requires out loud and test every candidate against it, so the proof women already produce decides.
    — Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of decides
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  • That may or may not be the case, but that’s not what this trade determines.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • For operators, marketers and investors, the answer determines whether a brand earns trust or simply rents attention for a season.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of determines
Verb
  • Named for nebbia, the Italian word for the heavy layer of fog that settles over the vineyards around harvest time in early autumn, Nebbiolo has been cultivated in Piedmont for more than 750 years.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Then the camera settles on Anna’s face and stays there long enough to watch her smile give out, a choice Adams says wasn’t necessarily written that way.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
Definition of settles
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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
  • Much like the Basel Committee harmonizes bank capital standards, or the WTO arbitrates trade disputes, a global competition body could improve outcomes by monitoring what no single authority can.
    — Ugo Troiano, Oc Register, 29 Nov. 2025
Definition of arbitrates
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  • MasterChef Australia judges Yeow and Sofia Levin later spoke to 10 News about welcoming Meghan to the set, describing an enthusiastic atmosphere among the contestants.
    — Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
  • Which means Beijing is regulating what your fifteen-year-old does after dinner, behind a closed door, with an entity that never tires of them, never judges them, and never has a bad day of its own.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of judges

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