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

as in books

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Recent Examples of appeals

Noun

Even with the appeals and distractions of the intertidal world and a few early morning tongues of uni, our bags are still overflowing. — Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026 Hynes has said his relationship with the board — a quasi-judicial, three-member board that hears appeals to the assessor’s valuations — would be less adversarial than Kaegi’s. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026 The campaign's closing hours also featured personal appeals, phone calls to undecided voters and aggressive turnout operations across the political spectrum. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 As the appeals filing of November 2025 made clear, if that testimony had happened, Masterson believed the second trial could have ended differently. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2026 Serbia's election laws provide for a period of appeals and potential reruns at individual polling stations before final election results are announced and a new Parliament is inaugurated. — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026 More broadly, a meta-analysis of over 100 studies found that fear appeals reliably shift attitudes and behavior across health and other domains. — Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026 But by simply narrowing their losses with appeals to voters such as Roethler, Democrats hope to become newly competitive from Iowa and Kansas to Nebraska and Ohio. — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Though Lignel’s lawsuits have gone through a series of appeals, neither seems to be currently ongoing. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for appeals

Noun

The suspect in Nebraska was detained pending trial after pleading not guilty, while the three suspects in New Jersey have not entered pleas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
After hearing pleas from more than a dozen prominent community and business leaders, commissioners agreed to decertify the entertainment district and strip it of its special privileges.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of pleas

Verb

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
During peak season, these rules determine whether AI books the right job, creates extra work for dispatch or loses the customer.

— Michael Fox, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of books

Noun

My 80-year-old mother and 87-year-old father were singing Hindu prayers to celebrate one of the most important holidays of our faith.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and everyone affected by this heartbreaking tragedy.

— Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of prayers

Verb

The committee cites a number of causes for this beyond the obvious geopolitical ones, like a change in the way the government awards subsidies that has negatively impacted cheaper vehicles.

— Adam Ismail, The Drive, 29 Oct. 2026
Ozell is a jazz singer and songwriter who has released two albums — 2015’s Take It With Me and 2020’s Overnight Lows — and cites Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, and Cassandra Wilson as influences.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of cites

Noun

Some members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition opposed the law, however, and right-wing opposition parties filed petitions to challenge it in court.

— Hannah Ridge, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
Members have protested through petitions and an 1,100-member boycott.

— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 Oct. 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

Noun

Her friend’s cries mixed with the sound of police car sirens before officers arrived and escorted students and staff out the building.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026
When news got around that a new movie version of Sense and Sensibility was in the works, cries of dismay rang forth from Bath to Brooklyn.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cries

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