judicatories

noun

plural of judicatory
as in judiciaries

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  1. judiciaries
  2. tribunals
  3. courts
  4. benches
Noun
  • Historians have devoted enormous attention to the collapse of the royal courts, the creation of state judiciaries, the drafting of new constitutions, and the construction of the legal institutions of the new republic.
    — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • They were also meant to help enable independent and corruption-free judiciaries in many countries, including Venezuela.
    — Shelley Inglis, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
Definition of judiciaries
Noun
  • Based upon their replies, occupying Allied officials ranked their culpability, then tried the worst offenders — most famously in the Nuremberg trials, but also in numerous local tribunals.
    — Fern Schumer Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Lawmakers are prohibited by the state Constitution from being paid representatives for individuals or entities before state agencies other than judicial tribunals.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Definition of tribunals
Noun
  • Trump filed the emergency appeal after lower courts blocked the administration from creating a federal list of eligible voters and limiting delivery of mail ballots only to people on that list in nearly half the states for the midterm elections.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Shortly after the ruling, New York City filed a motion for permission to appeal, which will stay the order in the lower courts.
    — Katherine Koretski, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of courts
Noun
  • Lab staff, mid-experiment, hid under their benches and waited there for hours.
    — Daniel Jernigan, STAT, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Doug Gibson, the novel’s closest thing to an idealist, is a pugilistic criminal-defense lawyer, the kind with ads on bus-stop benches.
    — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
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