Thesaurus results for ATTORNEYS

attorneys

noun

plural of attorney

as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another talked to the count's attorney about buying land from his estate

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a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations finished law school and became an attorney

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Recent Examples of attorneys Defense lawyers have since withdrawn their motion to dismiss the case after the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control in April began allowing Maduro and Flores to receive money from Venezuela to pay for their attorneys. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026 The brothers, who appeared in federal court in Miami on Monday, have denied all allegations against them and their attorneys have vowed to fight against the extradition request. — Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 21 July 2026 Both took the witness stand in days of testimony as defense attorneys Reid Kingsbury and Linda Parisi argued that Sergio Harris fired the first shots that killed Payton friend Turner and set the massacre in motion. — Reeti Malhotra, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026 In his over-seven-decade career, Dern became one of Hollywood’s top attorneys and pioneered groundbreaking business structures. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 July 2026 Burke’s lead attorneys, Blair Berk and Marilyn Bednarski, did not respond to a request for comment. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026 There’s some irony with attorneys representing college athletes, who for a long time were denied compensation opportunities by NCAA rules, not themselves being paid for their labor in litigation against the NCAA. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2026 Gilley has pleaded not guilty, and his attorneys have challenged that conclusion. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026 But even the attorneys doubted that this is anything more than an empty threat. — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 14 July 2026

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Along with attending matches, Infantino’s itinerary included stops in New York for an interview on Fox & Friends and in Miami for a FIFA summit attended by representatives from the organization’s 211 member associations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
Hopkinson and chief financial officer Simon Capper visited Nyon, Switzerland, on multiple occasions, while the CEO also spoke to governing-body representatives in Budapest before the Champions League final in May.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026

Definition of representatives

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In addition to the June 2027 trial date, both sides proposed that Maduro’s lawyers file their motion to dismiss the case based on sovereign immunity by September, with oral argument scheduled for November.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 22 July 2026
No lawyers were listed in court documents as representing him, and the public defender for the area did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 22 July 2026

Definition of lawyers

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But by Sunday, the field had largely been cleared after Jackson supporters spent the weekend securing hundreds of delegates who promised to back him at the upcoming state convention.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
It was rejected, an outcome rendered moot when Norway failed to qualify, but delegates passed a separate motion requiring the federation’s president to voice their collective criticism at the next FIFA Congress in Qatar.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

Definition of delegates

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Authorities arrested Munster and Claude Kwe, a research fellow at Rocky Mountain Labs, June 2 on charges of conspiracy to smuggle mpox into the United States and lying to border agents.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
The first few days after a home is listed often generate the greatest attention, with buyers and agents watching closely for new properties that fit their needs.

— Heartland MLS®, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026

Definition of agents

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Few high-profile managers embraced the ‘suffering’ mantra to the same degree as Italian coach Antonio Conte.

— Colin Millar, New York Times, 19 July 2026
The SpaceX offering featured twenty-three banks, a crew that ranged from the aforementioned giants to asset managers Bernstein and Mirae of South Korea.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2026

Definition of managers

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Of the 14 office holders to date, five have been foreign ministers and two have served as defense ministers.

— Mark Webber, Time, 24 July 2026
In 1636, when Harvard University opened its doors to train Puritan ministers, administrators assumed that the entering class was highly literate – not only in English, but in Greek and Latin, as well.

— Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026