adjudication
noun
ad·ju·di·ca·tion
ə-ˌjü-di-ˈkā-shən 
1
: the act or process of adjudicating a dispute
The case is under adjudication.
2
a
: a judicial decision or sentence
b
: a decree in bankruptcy
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Employers must refine adjudication processes to address discrepancies between available records and candidate claims.
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Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The success of so many applicants who enter and stay in a country of destination through this irregular pathway incentivizes others to attempt the same route, adding to the overburdened asylum docket and further slowing the adjudication of new applications.
—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Hollis pleaded no contest to child neglect charges and served probation – though adjudication was withheld and she was not convicted.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
One’s visits to the fantasy world are constantly interrupted by the rolling of dice and the adjudication of rules and, above all, by the players themselves, whose active role in inventing that world unavoidably reveals it, again and again, as totally invented.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
The success of so many applicants who enter and stay in a country of destination through this irregular pathway incentivizes others to attempt the same route, adding to the overburdened asylum docket and further slowing the adjudication of new applications.
—Amy Pope, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Hollis pleaded no contest to child neglect charges and served probation – though adjudication was withheld and she was not convicted.
—Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
One’s visits to the fantasy world are constantly interrupted by the rolling of dice and the adjudication of rules and, above all, by the players themselves, whose active role in inventing that world unavoidably reveals it, again and again, as totally invented.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Adjudication.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjudication. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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