adjudication

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Recent Examples of adjudication Settling in Mexico is not an option, Camacho insisted, though the Trump administration plans to ship asylum seekers arriving at the border back to Mexico to await U.S. adjudication of their cases. Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025 Employers must refine adjudication processes to address discrepancies between available records and candidate claims. Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 The success of so many applicants who enter and stay in a country of destination through this irregular pathway incentivizes others to attempt the same route, adding to the overburdened asylum docket and further slowing the adjudication of new applications. Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 Hollis pleaded no contest to child neglect charges and served probation – though adjudication was withheld and she was not convicted. Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for adjudication 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudication
Noun
  • Of the 34-month sentence which Gonzalez-Munoz will serve, 17 months are attributed to each of the assault charges, which are running consecutively.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The report, calling for review of a sentence after a person has served five years regardless of the original sentence or crime of conviction, is a blueprint for addressing the hyper-punitive sentencing of the past several decades.
    Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The ruling also criticized the NYPD’s later argument, that a request for the documents was burdensome.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The ruling allows Rodriguez and Lore to continue their payments that would gain them majority control of the team.
    Tim Baysinger, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For Mehdi’s quieter disposition, Guellaty makes his illustrations come alive.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • When Rivero’s time comes, his son will be the one to handle the disposition of his body.
    Collin Blinder, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nearly 500 people from almost 200 different engagements domestically and internationally participated, and the findings were shared at the AMS' annual meeting in January.
    Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 9 Feb. 2025
  • McInerney mentioned in court Friday that the attorney general’s office has appealed the Sixth District ruling to the California Supreme Court — on the grounds that the Racial Justice Act finding did not justify invalidating the jury verdict — and stated his office’s intention to re-file charges.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Adjudication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjudication. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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