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Critics argued that it flew in the face of innocent-before-proven-guilty parameters and that the job of police was to investigate, not adjudicate.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Holy Land is embedded in our consciousness, and “the proprietorial moral belief that we need to adjudicate for what happens in the Holy Land is very, very deep in the Western soul.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

“How would it work? How would you adjudicate these cases?”

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026

If the lien was entered incorrectly, you can file a motion to strike or adjudicate the lien in court.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026

This enterprise required that certain social and technical preconditions be met: the existence of reliable methods of communication, a common body of expert knowledge and an acknowledged group of experts able to adjudicate disputes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Finra, the industry’s self-policing group, adjudicates disputes among advisers, brokers, investors and institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Tax Court routinely adjudicates highly technical disputes between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service, clarifying ambiguities in law and practice through published opinions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

For instance, the bar nominates candidates to the board that adjudicates lawyers’ misconduct, and helps to set the board’s budget.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2025

Anti-discrimination organisation Kick It Out forwarded the case to the FA and it was then considered by an FA national serious case panel, which adjudicates on disciplinary matters in grassroots football.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

Every villa or borough throughout the province also possesses its municipal council, and in thinly-populated districts the inhabitants choose every four years a justice of the peace, who adjudicates in small disputes between neighbours.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Notably, it has not been adjudicated whether or not the FCC has crossed the line into jawboning.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

“It could be adjudicated expeditiously, or it could be just determining that they also agree that there was no criminal intent in the chair’s testimony at the banking committee that I participated in,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

He claimed her firing was “for cause,” a term whose precise legal meaning hasn’t been adjudicated but is widely interpreted to connote gross malfeasance or some such offense in office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

A White House official told the BBC that all individuals deported have had their asylum claims fully adjudicated before removal.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

On his behalf, I appealed to the Classification Board, which adjudicated cases falling under the Population Registration Act.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

A federal court in Texas may not stop a federal court in Rhode Island from adjudicating a case by issuing a glorified restraining order against the parties.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

The position allows him to perform judicial and quasi-judicial functions, including adjudicating cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

But the countries have traded allegations of ceasefire breaches, and analysts say a comprehensive peace pact adjudicating the territorial dispute at the core of the conflict remains elusive.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025

But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin