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  • The article summarizes this year's Supreme Court docket.
    docket = official schedule (of cases)
  • Without plea bargaining, there would be no hope of keeping up with the docket.
  • The judge rearranged her docket in order to have these last days free.  (source)
    docket = cases to be tried in court or items to discuss
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  • But next on the docket was a subject that proved more contentious.†  (source)
  • Heaven, for the Presbyterians, must resemble a banking establishment, with each soul tagged and docketed, and placed in the appropriate pigeonhole.†  (source)
  • It's their job to stack the bags on the float while Mr. Hannon goes to the office for the delivery dockets.†  (source)
  • I found myself automatically docketing and labelling each man as he was introduced to me, by the run of his features and by the first words that he spoke.†  (source)
  • In addition to the dozens of cases already on our juvenile docket, we were quickly overwhelmed.†  (source)
  • Its contents, I need hardly say, were all neatly docketed and pigeonholed so that he was able at once to lay his hand upon the paper he wanted.†  (source)
  • He tried to impose order now on the random movement before him, and almost succeeded: marshaling centers, warrant officers behind makeshift desks, rubber stamps and dockets, roped-off lines toward the waiting boats; hectoring sergeants, tedious queues around mobile canteens.†  (source)
  • For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.†  (source)
  • But worship was not on the docket that night, let me tell you.†  (source)
  • The pigeon-holes were docketed, 'letters unanswered', 'letters-to-keep', 'household', 'estate', 'menus', 'miscellaneous', 'addresses'; each ticket written in that same scrawling pointed hand that I knew already.†  (source)
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