adjudication

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Recent Examples of adjudication Right now, there's over 400,000 asylum seekers that under the last administration had their cases closed without adjudication. / Cbs News, CBS News, 8 June 2025 According to court records, Hoy received nine months of probation with deferred adjudication in a previous reckless driving case after he was arrested by Hurst police in 2019. Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2025 Deferred adjudication is a type of probation given to defendants who have pleaded guilty or no contest, but have not been convicted. Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2025 For disability benefit applicants, which can take more than a year to get a decision, there was information about processing time, reconsideration time, and appeals adjudication time. Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for adjudication
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Noun
  • Leslie agreed to a sentence of incarceration for one day, deemed served, and 24 months of supervised release, court records said.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 15 July 2025
  • According to an anonymous source speaking to the Daily Mail, Maxwell, who was convicted in 2022 over her links to Epstein's illicit activities and is serving a 20-year prison sentence, has expressed a willingness to testify before Congress about her experiences.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a teachers union, school districts, states and education groups.
    Rene Marsh, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Schrems II ruling invalidated the EU–U.S. Privacy Shield, creating uncertainty for companies relying on transatlantic data flows.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • In this sense, Skeptical Intelligence can be thought of as a disposition for critical thinking applied rigorously to the modern data and AI landscape.
    Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • Was that what gave me a British disposition according to Joya’s parents?
    Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The findings have cast a shadow over one of BBC One’s most successful formats, which has been a cornerstone of the network’s programming since Torode and Wallace began co-hosting in 2005.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • Instead of reading papers, many Anthropic researchers now simply upload them into Claude and chat with the assistant to distill the main findings.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 15 July 2025

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“Adjudication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adjudication. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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