INTERCESSIONS Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

intercessions

noun

plural of intercession

as in petitions

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Noun

Brightline’s operating arm — Brightline Trains Florida — was not among some 17 entities filing Chapter 11 petitions.

— David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2026
And the narrower House Republican minority will reduce the effectiveness of discharge petitions, which Democrats and a small bloc of Republicans used successfully this Congress to force votes.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of petitions

Noun

Jewish clergy, interfaith leaders and community members came together at the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza for a 45-minute service featuring prayers, songs and firsthand accounts of the violence that unfolded 88 years ago.

— Eva Andersen, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Sometimes Lisa Huberman, the social action engagement associate at UMBC Hillel, arrives with Jewish students preparing for a Friday evening gathering while Muslim students are concluding their prayers.

— Kyle Desrosiers-Levine, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of prayers

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Repetition is the governing principle throughout the record, from the recurring melodic figures to Sundfør’s own invocations.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Bailey, a downstate farmer seeking to reverse his loss to Pritzker four years ago, sought to turn the governor’s frequent invocations of Trump into a game.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of invocations

Noun

The Planning and Land Use Management Committee instructed the city Planning Department in October 2025 to explore alternative price points for appeals that would decrease the amount of money the city’s general fund would have to subsidize.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
That is true, but evidence suggests that such altruistic appeals could fail to increase vaccination and might even backfire.

— Jessica Fishman, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of appeals

Noun

But such is the scale of Brazil’s polarization that many Brazilians are insensible to Lula’s entreaties and want the left defeated.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Abroad, their entreaties had remained unsuccessful, their diplomats had remained unrecognized, and their national existence had remained unrealized.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entreaties

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Though not initially successful, Galston’s and Palme’s pleas, along with the work of several other individuals and organizations, set the groundwork for future consideration of ecocide as a crime against nature.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026
In 2007, federal prosecutors in South Florida negotiated a non-prosecution agreement that spared Epstein federal charges in exchange for guilty pleas to lesser state offenses.

— Anna Rahmanan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

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