as in solicitor
one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift
the lottery winner was beset by a horde of petitioners, all of whom thought that they were most deserving of his charity
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Recent Examples of petitioner
The petitioners are challenging a ban on assault weapons, including the AR-15, in Cook County, where the city of Chicago is located.
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Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
When adjudicating a request filed on Form I-129 involving the same parties and the same underlying facts, USCIS gives deference to its prior determination of the petitioner’s, applicant's, or beneficiary's eligibility.
—Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
After The Post contacted the petitioners, an anonymous representative responded, saying the group included parents, employees and leaders within the church and its affiliated Catholic school who feared retribution from Ciucci and the archdiocese.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
The petitioners argued that the agency should have, at a minimum, considered adding a toll lane as well as converting an existing lane to a toll lane.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
When adjudicating a request filed on Form I-129 involving the same parties and the same underlying facts, USCIS gives deference to its prior determination of the petitioner’s, applicant's, or beneficiary's eligibility.
—Stuart Anderson, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
After The Post contacted the petitioners, an anonymous representative responded, saying the group included parents, employees and leaders within the church and its affiliated Catholic school who feared retribution from Ciucci and the archdiocese.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
The petitioners argued that the agency should have, at a minimum, considered adding a toll lane as well as converting an existing lane to a toll lane.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for petitioner
Noun
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The trust’s beneficiaries—his solicitor Diana Rawstron and his daughter Rose Boyt—were instructed to distribute it according to his private wishes.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Royal says that her uncle, Philip, Slough’s brother, is a solicitor in the UK and he’s written to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the UK, asking it to investigate their family's case with Swiss authorities.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The owner then digitally signs the request with the private key to prove to the CA that the requester does, in fact, have control of the private key.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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After staff informed the requester about the expansive scope, that person did not respond.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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And as happens with the testimonies of the suppliants at the Asclepieion, the stelae ferry the feelings and names of these distant others across the ages to us.—
Teju Cole,
New York Times,
12 Sep. 2023
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Like other Te Deums, the work is both laudatory and suppliant, petitioning the divine for continued mercy.—
Hannah Edgar,
chicagotribune.com,
21 Aug. 2021
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“Petitioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petitioner. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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