lawsuits

noun

plural of lawsuit
as in suits
a court case for enforcing a right or claim the homeowner filed a lawsuit against the moving company that was refusing to be held responsible for damaging her furniture

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of lawsuits Executive orders to limit mail-in ballots, lawsuits over voter registration data, threats to funding and more have poured out of the White House leading up to the 2026 general election. — Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2026 Looming questions concerning its regulatory status and market integrity threaten to upend Kalshi’s business model, while mounting state and federal lawsuits suggest an eventual date with the Supreme Court. — Carson Becker, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026 Excessive caffeine consumption has become a liability concern after Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade was named in at least two wrongful death lawsuits. — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026 But for those who are named plaintiffs in state-level lawsuits over the same issue? — Matt Piper, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026 The officer with the second-highest number of complaints — also a Team 1863 member — was stripped of his police powers in February in the middle of a deposition for one of the lawsuits that resulted from the team’s activities. — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026 As Sportico detailed, the prospect of freshmen and others losing roster spots to former athletes returning to campus could have led those freshmen to file their own lawsuits. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2026 That case was a bellwether, or test case, picked from thousands of similar civil tort lawsuits to give both plaintiffs and the defendants an idea of how their arguments fare in court. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026 American media still remained pointed and punchy, free from debilitating lawsuits or destabilizing pressures. — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lawsuits
  1. suits
  2. actions
  3. complaints
  4. proceedings
Noun
  • The suits would not require the Pentagon to restart its work with the company.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Square Mile of the City of London, land of suits and proper pints, was short of exciting hotels, and then, in 2017, along came an urban resort.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of suits
Noun
  • Meta and Anthropic also disclosed their own systems took unsanctioned actions during cybersecurity tests, a wake-up call for the AI and cybersecurity industry.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • This allows the system to learn individual movements and combine them into more complex actions.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of actions
Noun
  • Park officials, meanwhile, have long fielded scores of complaints about other head and neck injuries sustained after riding the attraction, according to internal records cited by an expert witness for a plaintiff in court filings.
    — Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Mexican diplomats have filed complaints with the Justice Department, eight attorneys general and 12 district attorneys.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of complaints
Noun
  • Those proceedings were finalized before a public auction was set to take place on June 6.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Salazar and jurors are due back on court Wednesday for proceedings regarding his sanity at the time of the shooting, which will determine whether he is sent to state prison or committed to a state hospital.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of proceedings

Browse Nearby Words

lawsuit
lawsuits
lawyer
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Lawsuits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawsuits. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

Commonly Misspelled Words
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

Ye Olde Nincompoop: Old-Fashioned Words for 'Stupid'

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Words of the Week - Aug. 28

Why do we say 'break a leg'?
See More

Popular

See More

A Who’s Who Regarding ‘Who’s’ and ‘Whose’

Ye Olde Nincompoop: Old-Fashioned Words for 'Stupid'

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
skateboard-dog-hat
Wordmaxxing Slang Quiz Give your vocabulary a glow up by getting sendy w...
See All