How to Use adjudication in a Sentence

adjudication

noun
  • The adjudication of the charges against him will be held within six months to a year.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2022
  • If the case moves to adjudication, the case is assigned to a judge.
    — Karen Weaver, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Moreno had asked the court to grant her deferred adjudication.
    — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In the case of a felony, a deferred adjudication can keep a defendant out of jail or prison.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 July 2022
  • What page of The Sun does the adjudication need to be printed on?
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • The number of claims paid out includes those that have gone through adjudication already.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2020
  • Williams entered a guilty plea in April, and he was placed on deferred adjudication.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 13 July 2022
  • After an adjudication process, five of the ballots were pulled out and four were given a closer look.
    — Karen Pearlman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Online records do not show the adjudication status of that case, or whether Flake has pleaded to those charges.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 7 July 2022
  • As with the livestream option, adjudication this year will take a slightly different tack.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The department lacked staff to handle the influx of claims and calls about claims, causing adjudication to back up for months.
    — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2021
  • Beyond that period, a claimant has the right to file suit or await final Navy adjudication of the claim.
    — Catherine Herridge, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • So please do not confuse the documents that's been prepared with any kind of final adjudication.
    — Ashton Eley, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2021
  • And then secondly, there is the adjudication through a court of law for someone who poses a risk to themselves or to others.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • As in, how often have they been required to print the adjudication in their pages and online, and mentioned on the front page and the website home page?
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • And then, secondly, there is the adjudication through a court of law for someone who poses a risk to themselves or to others.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The hearing was part of the city's second round of short-term rental violation adjudications.
    — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 13 July 2017
  • The third set of unknowns is whether adjudication of this law is going to be within the power of Hong Kong’s courts.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 4 June 2020
  • Instead, the court withholds the adjudication of guilt, meaning the reckless driving charge will appear on the record but show no finding of guilt.
    — Jill Martin, CNN, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The judge in the case agreed to withhold adjudication, if Watts complied with terms of his 24 months of probation.
    — Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026
  • There was the reader looking for adjudication in a dispute with a nurse friend who wanted to break lockdown to visit a romantic prospect.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 11 June 2020
  • Golec said votes marked with the Pentel pens could be changed in the vetting or adjudication process when officials certify votes.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Soto also pleaded no contest to a second charge, but his adjudication was withheld.
    — Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The judge also agreed to withhold adjudication, a legal term that secures guilt but not a conviction if terms of the settlement are met.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The contractors would be cited and face fines through the village adjudication process, Troxell said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This review is part of a process known as adjudication, and it is required by the state's recount rules, according to Ridlen.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Kornblau was given a deferred adjudication, and ordered to pay a $50 fine and court costs.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Beard was credited with 871 days for time served in jail while awaiting adjudication of his case, Patino said.
    — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 3 Apr. 2018
  • In the first decade of the 21st century, the adjudication of patents became highly contentious.
    — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • An error in the sentencing phase does not require the re-adjudication of the guilty phase of the proceedings, Berger said.
    — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2021

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