adjudicate
verb (used with object)
to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
has adjudicated
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present perfectof adjudicate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But the agency has adjudicated fewer than 10,000, denying approximately 95% of them.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
No academic, journalist, victim or ordinary Catholic has any real idea how the Catholic Church has adjudicated these cases in any systematic way.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Cunningham has advised some Tea Party groups and has "adjudicated a number of disputes between Tea Party leaders."
From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2010
He has adjudicated 14,000 claims in Montana and has never once been reversed by the state supreme court.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been by this mode of reasoning that the court has adjudicated many important questions; and the same mode is proper here.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
