adjudicating

verb

present participle of adjudicate
as in deciding
to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute) when we asked the salesclerk to adjudicate our disagreement, she agreed with me that the white shoes looked better

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Recent Examples of adjudicating The World Trade Organization carries on adjudicating trade disputes, despite a surge in protectionism. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 The office added that all judges have a legal, ethical and professional obligation to be impartial and neutral in adjudicating cases. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2026 And when adjudicating this kind of accident, the courts tend to favor lenience. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 The House’s post-#MeToo rule changes in 2018 clarified that members cannot pursue relationships with their own staff and created a new process for adjudicating harassment claims. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 29 July 2026 But the speech gave him a fresh outrage through which to revisit an old defeat, accuse his own government of betrayal and force the press to spend the evening adjudicating his claims. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026 The final overriding decision was therefore not simply a process of adjudicating biological facts, but a judgment about what classification might do. — Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026 After Coroner Scott Sayers denied the request, Sherwood successfully appealed to the Office of Open Records, or OOR, a state agency responsible for adjudicating Right-To-Know Law disputes. — Jonah Walters, The Conversation, 24 June 2026 Rather than adjudicating guilt, the filmmakers opted to leave the question of truth open to viewers. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adjudicating
  1. deciding
  2. determining
  3. settling
  4. judging
  5. arbitrating
  6. resolving
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  • Even highly mature enterprise SOCs frequently remain dependent on humans assembling information from multiple systems, determining whether something is malicious and deciding what should happen next.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Car shoppers weigh several factors before deciding on a vehicle.
    — McKynzie Steward, AJC.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of deciding
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  • Additionally, potential buyers should consider the likely lifespan of the car when determining the length of their loan, Yoon said.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • That means determining how robots are transported, controlled, tasked, and integrated with soldiers and existing command structures.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of determining
Verb
  • Brighton could progress the ball into Chelsea’s third and then settle into possession, becoming comfortable enough to maintain it, with the Chelsea players settling into a block.
    — Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Average daily volume across US prediction markets reached nearly $2 billion in July, settling everything from Fed decisions to World Cup outcomes to Congressional votes.
    — Semafor Events, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of settling
Verb
  • Banks, judging by their own lending behavior, are not ruling that out.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • However, judging by the content of the minutes, specific details were sparse.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of judging
Verb
  • The planned center for arbitrating investment and commercial disputes, for example, will sit within the Syrian Investment Authority, which is itself attached to the presidency.
    — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Plaintiffs attorneys, legislators and patients say Kaiser’s private and confidential process for arbitrating legal disputes over medical care still has key flaws that favor Kaiser over patients bringing malpractice cases.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of arbitrating
Verb
  • Politicians, naturally, have stepped in without resolving anything yet.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • After resolving a bruising carriage standoff with Disney in 2023, the company has been able to strike unique agreements with programmers using that agreement as a template.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of resolving

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