: an official or authoritative decision, decree, statement, or interpretation (as by a judge on a point of law)
1
a
: exerting power or authority
the ruling party
b
: chief, predominating
a ruling passion
2
: generally prevailing
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Examples of ruling in a Sentence
Noun
The decision overturns the Supreme Court's earlier ruling.
She disputed the referee's ruling.
Adjective
members of the ruling class
the ruling opinion on premarital sex
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
Gutierrez issued his ruling after a jury found the NFL in violation of antitrust law on account of teams pooling their broadcasting rights for out-of-town fans into one package: the Sunday Ticket.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024
Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance that argued the case before the Supreme Court, said in a statement the ruling remedied government overreach.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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Noun
But that chapter, written before a July Supreme Court ruling that suggested Florida and Texas laws regulating content moderation flunk First Amendment scrutiny, also notes that Carr met some conservative pushback on that idea from his own Project 2025 collaborators.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 6 Nov. 2024
Gutierrez issued his ruling after a jury found the NFL in violation of antitrust law on account of teams pooling their broadcasting rights for out-of-town fans into one package: the Sunday Ticket.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Between 1995 and 2022, there were only 308 successful kidney transplants in Myanmar, according to ruling junta chief Min Aung Hlaing’s office.
—Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024
Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance that argued the case before the Supreme Court, said in a statement the ruling remedied government overreach.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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“Ruling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruling. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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