even-handed

adjective

1. dealing fairly with all; impartial

Other Word Forms

• even-handedly adverb
• even-handedness noun

Example Sentences

Now, a good deal of that work may come undone, as voters are being asked to scrap the even-handed congressional lines drawn by Sinay and her fellow commissioners in favor of a blatantly gerrymandered map that could all but wipe out California’s Republican representation in Congress.

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Boggs’ even-handed and critically rigorous biography of James Baldwin is guilty of none of these things, mostly because Boggs never strays from the path toward understanding why Baldwin wrote what he did and how his private and public lives were inextricably wound up in his work.

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In that case, which began with Routh’s arraignment in late September 2024, Cannon’s decisions on motions have been timely and even-handed, with rulings following as quickly as two weeks after the last related filing was submitted, and, aside from two requests for delay granted in part, the case progressing on time for its Sept. 8, 2025, trial date.

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If you look, not even just at the moment that existed at the time of oral argument but what's transpired since then, it's hard for me to imagine that any person with eyes and ears and an even-handed, sensible approach to this could not see why such second look review is appropriate here.

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But judges are “duty-bound to decide legal issues based on even-handed application of law and precedent — no matter the identity of the litigants or, regrettably at times, the consequences of their rulings for average people,” he said.

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