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 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudicating
  1. deciding
  2. determining
  3. settling
  4. judging
  5. arbitrating
  6. resolving
Verb
  • Woodrow Wilson, having suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919, refused to yield the presidency while his wife and physician quietly hid his condition from the country, deciding on his behalf what the nation would be permitted to know.
    — Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 19 July 2026
  • The family deciding what to put on the table tonight does not, and there is no defensible reason for that.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 19 July 2026
Definition of deciding
Verb
  • The incident was recorded on a home security camera, which assisted Deputy State Fire Marshals in determining the cause of the fire.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • Chief Estella Patterson told committee members officers have a hard time determining the exact age of juveniles without an ID, which delays the investigation and prolongs police interactions.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Definition of determining
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  • As Flex Global expands, users can take advantage of stablecoin payment rails and wallets in more than countries while settling cross-border payments in minutes, the company said.
    — Arthur Zackiewicz, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
  • Rather than opening in central London, the foundation chose to follow the artists, settling in a neighborhood that has become home to an increasingly vibrant creative community.
    — PhotoVogue, Vogue, 13 July 2026
Definition of settling
Verb
  • Time has a habit of judging architects more generously than their contemporaries often do.
    — Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • The judging panel includes Mark Ballas, fresh off his Traitors run, and his mother, Shirley Ballas.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of judging
Verb
  • 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
  • Its jurisdiction over credits is especially powerful, arbitrating decisions that can shape careers, reputations, and earnings.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Feb. 2026
Definition of arbitrating
Verb
  • The e-commerce and cloud computing giant spent much of the last two years digesting massive gains, but the consolidation appears to be resolving higher.
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • Gamers will play a resident maintenance worker, known as a Facilitator, that is tasked with resolving issues within the D-topia resident facility.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 15 July 2026
Definition of resolving

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