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 Every election, the two major parties mobilize massive operations of attorneys, staffers and volunteers to monitor polling places and ballot counting. — Nicholas Riccardi, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026 Reasons for delays in judgments aren’t always clear to the public or the respective attorneys. — Sam Blum, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 At a hearing last week, Wolfson told the attorneys Barahona must be prepared to go to trial — or to reach a plea deal. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026 After a 2018 raid at a Tennessee meatpacking plant, detained workers alleging racial profiling, excessive force and unlawful arrest – some under the FTCA – settled with the government for more than $1 million, the workers’ attorneys said. — Hanna Park, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026 Laura Koenig, one of Al-Marimi's attorneys, said the defense will need to question new witnesses and present additional expert testimony in response to the new evidence. — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026 Lucas and her attorneys with the Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian legal organization, assert that her ownership of the property shields her from banishment. — Savannah Peters, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The case had been set for a court hearing in late August over enforcement of the 2023 arbitration award, but attorneys for the union filed an unopposed motion the day before, asking for the hearing to be continued. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026

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Call your federal and local representatives and ask them to support the above bills and prioritize legislation that funds research around perimenopause and menopause.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Sep. 2026
CreativeFuture, the nonprofit advocating for creative copyright protections, was doing their own work, as were representatives from the TV Academy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of representatives

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Defense lawyers also reportedly complained that they had not been given access to substantial portions of the case file or adequate time to examine evidence before trial.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Advocates, lawyers, families and human rights organizations such as Amnesty International had previously reported and harshly criticized the treatment of detainees.

— Gisela Salomon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of lawyers

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McGuire also admitted to detonating the bomb in retaliation for various alleged government wrongs, including sheriff’s deputies seizing his firearms earlier that year.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Williamson County deputies have arrested a 26-year-old local man named Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu on murder and theft charges.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of deputies

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This time, a half-dozen states are going before Super Tuesday and some of them have tons of delegates.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Iranian delegates said the postponement was at the request of Saudi Arabia, which has recently endured a new series of attacks from Yemen’s Houthis.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of delegates

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Patel later suggested that the scope of firings had been overblown, saying many agents had retired on their own.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Agents can call APIs, query databases, retrieve documents, invoke other models, generate files, trigger workflows, connect to SaaS platforms and even delegate work to other agents.

— Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of agents

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At least as early as 2021, managers were warning that despite ongoing efforts to add new antennas to DSN, the agency cannot reach all deep-space missions at once.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 6 Sep. 2026
But for the users of AI models and services, it's created complexity and chaos as CEOs and IT managers spend an outsized amount of time and resources comparing costs and capabilities to avoid getting left behind.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026