Definition of docketnext
as in agenda
a listing of things to be presented or considered (as at a concert or play) on the Broadway docket for the early part of this season

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Recent Examples of docket This term, the court has decided 63 interim docket cases (more could come over the summer) and 66 merits docket cases, according to tracking by SCOTUSBlog. Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026 Within a span of three hours on a single morning in April in a downtown New York immigration courtroom, Judge Jem Sponzo issued deportation orders for 25 minors, almost everyone on her docket appearing virtually that morning. Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026 Their dockets did not show plea or attorney information as of Monday afternoon. Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026 The emergency docket, nicknamed the shadow docket, offers a venue for a quick answer about whether the government can continue a policy while a challenge is litigated. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for docket
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Noun
  • Created under the bipartisan Help America Vote Act to ensure fair, modern elections, the four-member commission now faces vacancies as the administration doubles down on its fraud-prevention agenda and appeals a court defeat.
    Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • About 42% of Colombia’s territory is covered by Amazon rainforest, and the Petro administration made rainforest protection and a transition away from fossil fuels central pillars of its environmental agenda.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • When asked about his All-Star nod over the weekend, Joe Ryan focused on his team’s offense and the upcoming schedule instead of himself.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 6 July 2026
  • On June 23, an attendant at a gas station in the center of Moscow told CNN that tankers were still arriving and delivering fuel according to schedule.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • For example, the adversary injects malicious instructions into an individual email or calendar invitation.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
  • After Universal pulled the M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te from its release calendar, Blumhouse Atomic Monster is sending the AI sci-fi thriller straight to home video.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
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  • Those include loyalty, membership or rewards programs that customers enroll in or if the savings are offered to broad groups of people, such as teachers, military members or senior citizens.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026
  • Friday’s announcement comes after CAA called for Meta to implement guardrails for Muse, despite the agency rolling out its own AI Vault program to archive its members’ likenesses forever.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 10 July 2026

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“Docket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docket. Accessed 14 Jul. 2026.

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