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proceedings

noun

plural of proceeding

as in lawsuits

a court case for enforcing a right or claim a divorce proceeding

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as in processes

a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result this is not the haphazard proceeding that it may seem to the casual observer

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Recent Examples of proceedings Courts have held that the right to an interpreter is protected by the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to a fair trial – including understanding court proceedings and communicating with counsel. —

Carol Rose Little, The Conversation, 12 June 2026 The Federal Reserve building’s current owner is Delta Quad Holdings, which has faced several foreclosure proceedings on the property over the past two years and filed multiple bankruptcies in federal court. —

Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026 The Fed is a body created by Congress, and in 2021, under the leadership of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House adopted gender neutral language for its official proceedings. —

Steve Liesman, CNBC, 12 June 2026 If the deadline is missed, their applications will be rejected — with no opportunity to appeal — and they could be placed in deportation proceedings. —

Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Over the past year, 248 relatives of former military members have been put into deportation proceedings, 125 former service members have been arrested for immigration violations and 34 former military members have been put into deportation proceedings. —

Alex Poppe, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026 The court upheld the other convictions but remanded the second-degree murder charge to a lower court for further proceedings. —

Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 12 June 2026 With an infusion of custom Gucci, of course, which is exactly what longtime soccer fan Salma Hayek Pinault brought to Thursday’s proceedings in Mexico in a scarlet suit topped with a Boucheron brooch. —

Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 June 2026 Brinkema said at one point during the proceedings that just this week an unidentified individual had send an application for money from the fund directly to the court. —

Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 12 June 2026

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Trump and his allies filed more than 60 lawsuits challenging the results and failed to overturn a single state's outcome.

— Josh Meyer, USA Today, 7 June 2026
The dismissal was granted Friday under Washington’s Anti-SLAPP laws, which are designed to prevent meritless lawsuits intended to silence opposing points of view on matters of public interest.

— Melissa Goldin, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026