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docket

[dok-it] / ˈdɒk ɪt /


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China’s data docket is light, with Monday’s loan prime-rate announcement the sole major event of note.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

When a newly confirmed district judge takes the bench, the FJC teaches him how to manage a docket, handle complex evidence and run a courtroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

It means training dollars go to docket management and evidence law, not to programming on contested social or political questions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

Protests erupted nationwide, and the Senate held a hearing on the shadow docket.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2026

Also on the change docket is varying the season in which the cubs are released.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Meanwhile, the internet has destroyed the local newspapers that once could send reporters into county courts to check the dockets.

From MarketWatch May 5, 2026

It would be the disbandment of this investigative unit by Mr Mchunu that led to Gen Mkhwanazi's explosive briefing a fortnight ago, complaining that 121 case dockets were "gathering dust" at the national police headquarters.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2025

With more than 40 lawsuits on court dockets around the country, he told me, “it’s too early to declare that either side is going to win the ultimate battle.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2025

Judicial dockets are finite, and public needs are great.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2024

Mam gets the relief and the food dockets till someone informs on her and she’s cut off from the Dispensary.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Court records show that Trump's appeal has been docketed and assigned a case number.

From Salon Oct. 19, 2023

A court clerk showed the indictments to Fulton County District Court Judge Robert McBurney, who briefly reviewed the papers and directed them to be docketed.

From Washington Times Aug. 14, 2023

But the clerk’s office mistakenly docketed the manslaughter case as a civil matter, presumed it was related to the existing lawsuit and reassigned it to Hilton.

From Washington Post Apr. 28, 2023

He also invited them to submit docketed letters ahead of time proposing “agenda items for discussion.”

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2022

I thought of the writing-desk in the morning-room, the docketed pigeon-holes all marked in ink by that slanting pointed hand.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Alexander’s office said that led to the docketing of “what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”

From Seattle Times Aug. 15, 2023

“Unfortunately, the sample working document led to the docketing of what appeared to be an indictment, but which was, in fact, only a fictitious docket sheet.”

From Washington Times Aug. 15, 2023

But as the session advanced, the House did not make any progress on their own proposed bills, never docketing the bills for committee and letting them die.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2022

In New York, uploaded petitions sat, in a digital void, for months on end without docketing.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2021

The conductor of our train had spotted me from seeing my pass, and I happened to hear him docketing me for the wrecking boss.

From The Wreckers by Lynde, Francis




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