INTERCESSIONS Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

intercessions

noun

plural of intercession

as in petitions

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Noun

The petition was launched on Canada's parliamentary petitions portal, where citizens and residents of Canada can set up petitions to parliament.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
The move was so broken that players across the country started online petitions to try and get the EA developers to nerf Judkins' spinning.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of petitions

Noun

The Hampshire County Sheriff's Office thanked everyone who helped in the three-day search and asked people to keep the woman's family in their thoughts and prayers.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Sending healing prayers to your family, your daughter and all who loved you.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of prayers

Noun

Their selective invocations of Washington may have obscured his complicity, but some abolitionists truly believed doing so would help bring the horror of American slavery to an end.

— John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer?

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

Definition of invocations

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This week's hearings mark the first major step in Anthony's post-conviction appeals process following his sentencing.

— CBS Texas Staff, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
If the dispute is not resolved during the examination, UnitedHealth can pursue the IRS administrative appeals process and potentially litigate the matter.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of appeals

Noun

Alicent makes similar entreaties to Rhaenyra, offering to divide the kingdom, with Aegon in charge of the stormlands, westerlands, the Reach and rule from Oldtown, with everything to the north going to Rhaenyra.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
These are the people who will likely be most amenable to negotiations or personal entreaties.

— Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 June 2026

Definition of entreaties

Noun

Through May, prosecutors had charged fewer than four dozen people with crimes related to noncitizen voting, ProPublica’s analysis of DOJ data and federal court filings shows, getting convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases.

— Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026
And in 2020, the Daily News reported that one Bronx gun suspect was acquitted and two others were allowed to withdraw felony guilty pleas after Habib admitted evidence in the case had been tampered with.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026

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