litigations

noun

plural of litigation
as in lawsuits

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  1. lawsuits
  2. proceedings
  3. actions
  4. suits
Noun
  • Hundreds of people, meanwhile, from individual homeowners to those detained at the ICE processing center in Broadview, have been part of a flurry of lawsuits against the federal agents and their supervisors.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • There have been at least seven lawsuits over the matter since 2024, according to Religion News Service.
    — BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of lawsuits
Noun
  • Outside of the custody proceedings, Ortiz appeared to be litigious, filing a flurry of small claims suits.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Opponents of the map had for months accused Republican state officials of using his office to delay court proceedings and keep the map in effect for the November election, a point that the Missouri Supreme Court echoed in its decision last week.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of proceedings
Noun
  • Israel, which isn’t a party in the proceedings, strongly denies that its actions amount to acts of genocide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Characters disappear, or have their attributes and actions assigned to different characters.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of actions
Noun
  • The previous year a few of these people had even wandered the camp in the evenings, men dressed in suits and women with lipstick on their teeth.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • As the plane taxied to the terminal in Pennsylvania, Grosof looked out the window and noticed members of the military in ghillie suits, a type of camouflage, with long guns in bushes surrounding the runway.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of suits
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