Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, the internet has destroyed the local newspapers that once could send reporters into county courts to check the dockets.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Since the 1970s, immigration judges have administratively closed deportation proceedings in order to ease the massive backlog on their dockets and prioritize more urgent cases.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

It would be the disbandment of this investigative unit by Mr Mchunu that led to Gen Mkhwanazi's explosive briefing a fortnight ago, complaining that 121 case dockets were "gathering dust" at the national police headquarters.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

Time also doesn’t help with the backlog, even though government records show judges completed far more cases in the last year than ever before, because their dockets keep growing so fast.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Mam gets the relief and the food dockets till someone informs on her and she’s cut off from the Dispensary.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt