intercessions

Definition of intercessionsnext
plural of intercession

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Noun
  • Over decades, advocates employed such methods as petitions, public demonstrations, organized marches and legal challenges until the movement finally achieved victory with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, when women were finally granted the legal right to vote.
    Leslie Hoyle Guerra, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
  • More than 120,000 people have signed petitions calling for the rapper cum right wing political activist to be deported to her home country of Trinidad.
    Leah Donnella, NPR, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Late nights and anxious supplications.
    Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Our thoughts and prayers regarding Marshawn are with his girlfriend Catalina and his family.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In 2011, a Muslim militant blew himself up in a mosque at a police compound in Cirebon packed with officers during Friday prayers, injuring 30 people.
    NPR, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Seneca’s and Cicero’s invocations of humanitas were as double-edged as our own talk of the humanities, pointing at once to a body of knowledge and to a moral choice that learning might inspire.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Zed has led invocations for the Idaho Senate and Boise City Council.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Payments will be distributed after the settlements are approved and any appeals are resolved.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Both sides also had filed appeals, with DMACC challenging the judge's injunction and Drake arguing that Rose wrongly excluded from her injunction a block D with a bear paw logo, previously used by DMACC in connection with its Bears athletics teams.
    William Morris, Des Moines Register, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • But despite his entreaties, including meeting with Putin in Alaska, floating sanctions relief, and threatening to cut off aid to Kyiv, the Russian president has refused to be charmed into giving up on his invasion.
    Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • However, so far, WBD has turned down the Ellison entreaties.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Donald filed for an appeal in February 1997, and a court heard his pleas in 2015 before overturning his convictions.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Both Maduro and his wife entered not guilty pleas earlier this week.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2026
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“Intercessions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intercessions. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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