Thesaurus results for PROCEEDINGS

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 The judge blocked the three Trumps from using or referring to the deal in any official proceedings. — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 For Orlando families, workers and businesses, the practical response begins with accurate records, a clear plan and a realistic understanding of how immigration agencies and court proceedings can intersect. — Ascend Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026 Williams did not void the deal shielding Trump from tax scrutiny but said the government cannot claim in official proceedings that the agreement was the result of a legitimate legal process. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 That dispute has unfolded alongside proceedings before two international courts, but only one is considering genocide. — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026 In Friday's filing, defense attorneys Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Marc Agnifilo and Jacob Kaplan argued the court's media access restrictions amount to a partial closure of the proceedings in violation of the First, Sixth and 14th Amendments. — Greg Wehner , Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 The Athletic reported at the time that sources with knowledge of proceedings, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, said these were particularly damaging to Southampton’s case. — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 22 July 2026 Preliminary hearings like this one serve a similar function to that of grand jury proceedings. — Madeline Morrison, NBC news, 22 July 2026 Court records show that their divorce proceedings have been acrimonious. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 21 July 2026

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The county attorney presented a plan to sue several big pharma companies for the deceptive marketing practices that triggered the opioid epidemic, following the pattern established by lawsuits filed against tobacco companies starting in the 1990s.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026
Lawsuits over bills Besides Musk’s complaint, Minnesota has seen several lawsuits over bills related to the tech industry.

— Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of lawsuits

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IPOs and public-market financing require disclosure, compliance processes and legal predictability.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
On the other end are enterprises that generate value from AI through productivity and lower costs gained via automating customer service, streamlining business processes, and catching fraud.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

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Small businesses may also be able to reduce their taxes through actions like providing employee benefits or starting retirement plans.

— Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026
Hugging Face, for its part, published a forensic timeline, describing how the autonomous AI system spent four and a half days executing 17,600 distinct hacking actions across multiple organizations — without direct involvement by any humans.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of actions

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Tarter said RealTime Reservation keeps hotel and brand information separate and follows GDPR requirements, including procedures for deleting guest data.

— Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Its results have sparked a flurry of activity as physicists try to determine whether the conflicting measurements are a side effect of different experimental procedures, or a sign that new particles are popping up after all.

— Matt von Hippel, Quanta Magazine, 29 July 2026