APPEALS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

appeals 1 of 2

noun

plural of appeal

as in pleas

an earnest request made an appeal to the public to donate desperately needed blood

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2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of appeal

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Recent Examples of appeals

Noun

The Planning and Land Use Management Committee instructed the city Planning Department in October 2025 to explore alternative price points for appeals that would decrease the amount of money the city’s general fund would have to subsidize. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026 That is true, but evidence suggests that such altruistic appeals could fail to increase vaccination and might even backfire. — Jessica Fishman, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026 And some have credited certain candidates’ left-wing appeals with the high youth turnout and grassroots mobilization efforts. — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026 Ask them to explain what appeals to them before defending your original position. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026 That’s expected given the strict deadlines and complicated rules about how appeals must be filed. — Samantha Melamed, ProPublica, 9 Nov. 2026 In August attorneys for the state argued in front of the appeals panel that Morales Howard demanded more than the Constitution requires and pushed back against her understanding of what information a termination notice is required to include. — Sharmila Venkatasubban, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026 Big business interests like building owners, developers and the property tax attorneys that file appeals for both lined up with Hynes, who convinced party officials to endorse him over the summer. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026 Before that, Gooden was an appellate attorney who handled hundreds of appeals. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for appeals

Noun

The National Capital Planning Commission heard nearly eight hours of impassioned pleas from veterans, lawmakers, residents and concerned citizens opposed to the structure.

— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
As for the next chapters of Glee and Girls, may the writers’ rooms hear our post-election pleas.

— Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of pleas

Verb

After tracing the same woodland route that Kino used to enjoy with her father, Kai books an appointment and heads to the remote clinic—housed right within the girls’ old family home.

— James Marsh, Variety, 3 Nov. 2026
Discovering Lofoten’s foodways Kitchen on the Edge of the World books up fast, so reserve your spot early.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of books

Noun

Jewish clergy, interfaith leaders and community members came together at the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza for a 45-minute service featuring prayers, songs and firsthand accounts of the violence that unfolded 88 years ago.

— Eva Andersen, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Sometimes Lisa Huberman, the social action engagement associate at UMBC Hillel, arrives with Jewish students preparing for a Friday evening gathering while Muslim students are concluding their prayers.

— Kyle Desrosiers-Levine, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of prayers

Verb

Gareth Skewis, who co-founded the company with Lev Tanju, cites this as one of the core reasons the international, multi-million-pound business has been able to expand and maintain its credibility in subcultures across the globe.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Wärtsilä’s study cites an International Energy Agency estimate that recovered data center heat could meet around 10% of European space-heating demand, potentially creating €180 billion in net economic value over 20 years.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of cites

Noun

Most of these people were freed through habeas corpus petitions, which let detainees challenge the government’s legal right to imprison them.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 6 Nov. 2026
The state spends more than $200 million a year to adjudicate automatic death penalty appeals and habeas corpus petitions for inmates who, in all likelihood, will never be executed, according to a 2025 report by the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of petitions

Verb

The result, in both its grace notes and its gestalt, freakishly summons the placeless, timeless, sunless anti-aesthetics of a turn-of-the-millennium strip-mall buffet.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026
On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of summons

Verb

Cervera, who often publicly criticizes school district decisions, defends his criticism of Fernandez.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
At an October debate, Bass pointed out that Raman, as chair of the city council’s housing and homelessness committee, had repeatedly approved spending on Inside Safe, the very program Raman now criticizes as expensive and insufficiently accountable.

— Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026