adjudicate
verb (used with object)
to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
have adjudicated
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present perfectof adjudicate.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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India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge was found to have adjudicated on a property dispute using fake judgements generated by artificial intelligence.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Rodriguez, who has been on the bench since 2003, first used AI experimentally to see how it would have adjudicated a seven-week trial he had recently completed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
“For 400 years, courts have adjudicated disputes between private parties about the validity of patents,” said Allyson N. Ho, a Dallas lawyer representing patent holder Oil States Energy Services.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2017
It was found that a $1,600 clerk was back in his work with 300 cases which it was necessary to have adjudicated.
From Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
To the declarations the defendants demur, and thereby raise the only questions we desire to have adjudicated.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
