adjudicators

plural of adjudicator
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as in judges
a person who impartially decides or resolves a dispute or controversy since they seemed to be in a hopeless stalemate, both labor and management agreed to use an independent adjudicator to decide the terms of the contract

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as in courts
a public official having authority to decide questions of law the appellate court refused to hear the case, thus allowing the judgment of previous adjudicators to stand

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Recent Examples of adjudicators This led to many longtime employees of companies leaving the United States when USCIS adjudicators rejected their H-1B applications. Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Under the plans, an independent body of adjudicators would be created to handle asylum appeals and reduce the backlog of 106,000 cases, including 51,000 appeals with average wait times exceeding a year. Reuters, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025 Similarly, the program still has eight adjudicators, known as special masters, to review all cases before the government. Matthew Perrone, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • But Gilliam’s attorneys argue judges have disagreed about whether the same is true for the combination of letters and numbers on personalized license plates.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In New Jersey, federal judges refused to extend Habba’s interim appointment after her 120-day term expired.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • The Justice Department will likely appeal the case to the Supreme Court, where the justices could pause the reinstatement of the FTC member on its emergency docket while letting the case continue to work its way through lower courts.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And Congress is unlikely to grant him new tariff powers after the courts just ruled that doing so unilaterally violated the separation of powers.
    Brett Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • No other referees intervene in this system and the on-pitch official will review every goal, regardless of whether they are asked.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • His fellow referees dressed as a fisherman, an admiral and a commander.
    M.L. Elrick, Freep.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Human umpires still call balls and strikes for Major League Baseball games, but a digital strike zone is displayed on screen that shows precisely where the ball actually goes.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • While walking back to the dugout, Contreras threw his bat in what appeared to be in the direction of one of the umpires.
    Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Adjudicators.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjudicators. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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