Thesaurus results for RULINGS

rulings

noun

plural of ruling

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a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard the controversial ruling by the state's supreme court caused an uproar

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an order publicly issued by an authority the FCC's ruling regarding the broadcasting of obscenities

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Recent Examples of rulings However, extravagant demands from government litigators are better suited to generate breathless headlines than favorable court rulings. — David B McGarry, Oc Register, 8 July 2026 With those rulings, the federal government has lost similar cases more than 10 times around its requests for details from 30 states and the District of Columbia. — ABC News, 8 July 2026 The court took the case after two lower state appeals courts issued divergent rulings. — Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026 All six of the majority rulings Jackson wrote were unanimous decisions, and none of them came in major cases. — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2026 Experts say the rulings did not adhere to Nigerian judicial procedures. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 6 July 2026 Despite those rulings, some legal advocates say they still have not been paid what they’re owed. — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026 This 3-0 victory over Canada was good but also comes after a successful (depending on legal rulings) AFCON campaign and further development of Morocco’s youth teams. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 4 July 2026 The Supreme Court's immigration rulings have largely allowed Trump to decide who can enter the United States and who must leave. — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 1 July 2026

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Completing their sentences with what sounds plausible is not preservation.

— Masha Pearl, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
His use of the presidency’s sweeping ability to unilaterally grant pardons and commute sentences is among the ways the Republican’s return to office has featured an expansive use of executive power.

— Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026

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The artists were protesting the approval of two decrees that regulate and censor artists not affiliated with state institutions, and penalize freedom of expression and independent journalism.

— Sarah Moreno June 5, Miami Herald, 6 June 2026
Editors also printed speeches of major national and state political leaders as well as significant government documents, including sessions of state legislatures and governors’ decrees.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

Definition of decrees

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The two findings can both be true, Kharazian said, because the Stanford study was broader and didn’t focus just on the firms that use AI.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
The camp owners, the Eastland family, ultimately pulled their license request, but that wasn't the end of the camp's story, as the state lawmakers published, on June 18, 2026, the findings of their months-long investigation into the tragedy.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse The highly agile Getty shooter Alan Crowhurst has done us a great favor by bringing concrete cloakroom evidence of the many social and administrative challenges that the (famous) Royal Ascot costume edicts require in order to be properly met.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
The age of the Germanic male genius delivering edicts from on high has run its course.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of edicts

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Yolo County jurors in June 2025 acquitted Dominguez of second-degree murder in Breaux’s killing and failed to reach verdicts in Abou Najm’s killing and Guillory’s attack.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
Both prison sentence and ban have been shortened The appeals court upheld guilty verdicts for all 11 accused, including Le Pen and other party members.

— Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026

Definition of verdicts

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Reality Check is a Herald series holding those in power to account and shining a light on their decisions.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
When overseeing retirement accounts, employers have a fiduciary duty to make prudent decisions and put their workers’ interests first.

— Paul Kiel, ProPublica, 8 July 2026

Definition of decisions

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Under Illinois law, judgments are generally enforced by a supplemental proceeding.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Another way to say this is that, in place of the extensive self-announcements Plato allows his characters, Rochester substitutes his own summary judgements, his sarcastic imitations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

Definition of judgments

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There are moves in Congressto extend that life to 2032, however, as well as directives for NASA to support through missions to commercial space station replacements through 2040.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2026
Bozeman doesn’t believe in looking at headcount as a measure of performance or issuing directives to cut 10% of staff or budgets.

— Diane Brady, Fortune, 6 July 2026

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