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ˈdʒʌdʒ ɪzjudges

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Judges, Book of Judgesnoun

    a book of the Old Testament that tells the history of Israel under the leaders known as judges

Wiktionary

  1. judgesnoun

    Plural of judge.

  2. Judgesnoun

    The seventh book of the Old Testament, and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.

  3. Etymology: Reference to the contents of the book, a chronicle of the acts of the Judges of Israel.

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  1. judges

    Judges are appointed or elected individuals who oversee and rule on legal proceedings in a court of law. Their duties often include interpreting laws and regulations, assessing evidence presented during trials, and issuing legal decisions or judgments. Judges are expected to ensure that justice is served, and they play critical roles in ensuring fairness and impartiality during trials. They may serve on various types of courts, including criminal, civil, appellate, family, or supreme courts.

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    Rank popularity for the word 'judges' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3745

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of judges in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of judges in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of judges in a Sentence

  1. Shira Scheindlin:

    I don't think judges are going to be too intimidated, but for those few who have the ambition to go to a higher court, they may think twice about leniency, that's unfortunate. They should only be thinking about the defendant in front of them.

  2. Supreme Court spokesman Theodore Te:

    The court today resolved to treat the speech of President Rodrigo Duterte as a complaint against the four judges, this is just for the administrative case since the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction on criminal cases.

  3. Julie Metcalf Kinney:

    The tactics we are facing, of sneaky and illegal foreclosure tactics, predatory banking and loans, elected judges who take campaign contributions from the real estate industry, coupled with violence from law enforcement and no real due process, have been used across this historically Black neighborhood to displace Black and poor people, if Black and Indigenous lives matter in Portland, this must stop.

  4. Alex Chow:

    How long can we maintain Hong Kong's judicial independence? we've already seen judges make decisions that have been highly contentious. Beijing might be able to put pressure on Hong Kong to charge us (the protest leaders) with more serious offences to shut us up.

  5. Satya Rhodes-Conway:

    Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong with this election, not because of the pandemic, but because of cruel choices made by Republican politicians and their pet judges.

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