Thesaurus results for ADJUDICATORS

adjudicators

noun

plural of adjudicator

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 The competition included 23 players who supplied preliminary video performances; adjudicators selected 12 finalists. —

Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 6 May 2026 The department disputes that, saying judges are independent adjudicators who decide cases individually. —

Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2026 Thomas Bradford is one of 81 adjudicators the company employs across six continents. —

Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026 Lahoud said the adjudicators follow a flowchart — and if the applicant meets the minimum criteria, the person can expect an approval notice to arrive within days. —

Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 13 Jan. 2026 The Justice Department’s defense primarily rests on the notion that agency adjudicators like the Merit Systems Protection Board — not federal courts — must decide the disputes. —

Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2025 In recent months, EOIR leadership has criticized judges for not efficiently managing their caseloads, and has encouraged adjudicators to streamline asylum reviews and give oral, as opposed to written, decisions on case dismissals. —

Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025 Edlow told The Associated Press that the guidance was intended to identify support for terrorist ideologies—not to penalize ordinary political criticism—when adjudicators evaluated applicants for green cards and other benefits. —

Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025 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

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The judges face a ticking clock as local election clerks prepare to finalize ballots for the August primaries by May 26 and decisions in the three cases are likely to come quickly.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
Marquee judges there included some of the biggest names in the industry, such as Stephanie Macleod – the legendary master blender for Dewar’s – and Billy Leighton, the iconic longtime blender at Jameson Irish Whiskey.

— Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026