adjudicating

verb

present participle of adjudicate
as in deciding
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 adjudicating The House’s post-#MeToo rule changes in 2018 clarified that members cannot pursue relationships with their own staff and created a new process for adjudicating harassment claims. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 29 July 2026 But the speech gave him a fresh outrage through which to revisit an old defeat, accuse his own government of betrayal and force the press to spend the evening adjudicating his claims. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026 The final overriding decision was therefore not simply a process of adjudicating biological facts, but a judgment about what classification might do. — Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026 After Coroner Scott Sayers denied the request, Sherwood successfully appealed to the Office of Open Records, or OOR, a state agency responsible for adjudicating Right-To-Know Law disputes. — Jonah Walters, The Conversation, 24 June 2026 Rather than adjudicating guilt, the filmmakers opted to leave the question of truth open to viewers. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2026 This inspired a lot of lawsuits that have winded their ways through the court system and the Supreme Court is adjudicating one of those lawsuits right now, basically interpreting the Constitution. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 June 2026 That agency is tasked with adjudicating appeals from federal employees regarding adverse actions taken against them. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026 The courts are adjudicating those issues. — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudicating
  1. deciding
  2. determining
  3. settling
  4. judging
  5. arbitrating
  6. resolving
Verb
  • Advance preparations should also include deciding who has the authority to change a controversial decision or plan.
    — Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The three-time Defensive Player of the Year has been working out in hopes of deciding whether to play for the Rams, two years after the future first-ballot Hall of Famer retired.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of deciding
Verb
  • In automotive supply chains, resilience is ultimately built at the point of execution where disruption stops being theoretical and starts determining whether vehicles roll off the line or sit unfinished on the factory floor.
    — Anand Gupta, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Adversaries can jam or spoof satellite navigation signals, potentially preventing drones from accurately determining their positions.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
Definition of determining
Verb
  • Oyster was checked by a specialist vet who deemed her as healthy and has since been settling into a sanctuary with specialist facilities for primates.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • If big-city energy appeals, with days spent wandering between markets and museums before settling into a top table for dinner, then the Western Cape—home to Cape Town—might be the best choice.
    — Katie Silcox, Vogue, 21 July 2026
Definition of settling
Verb
  • Alongside judging pitch decks and impact statements, support programs should increasingly measure customer retention, unit economics, gross margins, and willingness-to-pay experiments.
    — AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Health insurers and hospitals tend to keep their contracts confidential, but, judging from each party’s previous comments, disagreements over reimbursement rates were a key issue throughout the negotiations.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of judging
Verb
  • Plaintiffs attorneys, legislators and patients say Kaiser’s private and confidential process for arbitrating legal disputes over medical care still has key flaws that favor Kaiser over patients bringing malpractice cases.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, the leaders reported that the core business of the guild — paying residuals, arbitrating credit disputes, and so on — continues, though the guild’s offices, theater and library remain closed.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of arbitrating
Verb
  • But Morrison wouldn’t have landed on Moondance or Mystic without first resolving a contract problem.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • A number of therapies centered on resolving moral injury have emerged in recent years.
    — Amy S. Badura-Brack, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Definition of resolving

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