Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intercessions
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Of the ballot items, only Measure E spurred any meaningful political spending, with the city’s largest public labor unions dropping over $1 million to bankroll citizen groups that gathered petitions and later to campaign for the tax’s approval.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026 -
That also includes encouraging voters to vote for a particular candidate, sharing campaign materials or circulating petitions.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Late nights and anxious supplications.—
Steve Rushin,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wore an Arsenal tunic to Eid prayers in the Bronx.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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The New Year eventually came, bringing with it fresh hopes and prayers and celebrations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Yet office work expanded, as recent invocations of the Jevons paradox rightly note.—
Christopher Marquis,
Time,
30 May 2026
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Such rhetoric echoes in official statements as well — in prayers for destruction, in invocations of divine sanction for war and in casual references to catastrophic violence.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Her newfound look appeals not only to the metropolitan crowd but also to fans in more rural areas.—
Kelsey Stiegman,
InStyle,
28 May 2026
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There are other appeals and petitions as well.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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Kibandi discussed with us about the power of art in creating change and how photography can be a vehicle for culture expanding orisons for girls and women.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
16 Dec. 2025
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But Epstein’s entreaties to Keita were not limited to business.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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On the demand of the Commons, Suffolk is exiled for his part in Gloucester’s death despite the queen’s entreaties to the king.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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Kenneth Law, dressed in a dark blazer and white shirt, stood in the prisoner’s box of a court in Newmarket, Ontario, to enter his guilty pleas.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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There are acid critiques of settler colonialism alongside tributes to the majesty of the American landscape, sober revisitations of enslavement alongside hopeful pleas for liberation, bitter denouncements of intervention in wars abroad alongside quaint homages to homespun Americanness.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
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