as in complainants
the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another
the judge ruled that the plaintiff's lawsuit was groundless, and he dismissed it
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Recent Examples of plaintiffs
The plaintiffs insist that the arbitration clause is unconscionable and thus unenforceable, but Vargas disagreed.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Attorneys for the MacArthur Justice Center, the ACLU of Illinois and the Chicago office of law firm Eimer Stahl are representing the plaintiffs.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
In both complaints, plaintiffs claim that the health systems shared information with other technology companies through the use of Meta Pixels or other tracking, analytics or advertising technologies.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
The tracker includes information such as links to the lawsuit complaint (which list all plaintiffs), when a case was filed, the case name, press releases related to the case, a summary of the case in Nessel's words and the status of each case.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
In a complaint filed in 2023, Gannett and the other plaintiffs accused Google of violating federal antitrust laws by abusing its dominant position to control and profit from the technology used by publishers to buy and sell ads across the internet.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2025
One of the plaintiffs in the case was Tara Blunt, who, by this point, had withdrawn her son from public school and enrolled him at a private academy, despite the financial strain this imposed on her family.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Bovino appeared before Ellis on Tuesday after the plaintiffs accused him of throwing a tear gas canister into a crowd of demonstrators without justification or warning – a characterization DHS has refuted.
—Devan Cole, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Forty minutes will be allocated to the solicitor general, 20 minutes reserved for a representative speaking on behalf of private parties (American small business plaintiffs), and 20 minutes reserved for the dozen states that sued the administration over the tariffs.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
Attorneys for the MacArthur Justice Center, the ACLU of Illinois and the Chicago office of law firm Eimer Stahl are representing the plaintiffs.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
In both complaints, plaintiffs claim that the health systems shared information with other technology companies through the use of Meta Pixels or other tracking, analytics or advertising technologies.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
The tracker includes information such as links to the lawsuit complaint (which list all plaintiffs), when a case was filed, the case name, press releases related to the case, a summary of the case in Nessel's words and the status of each case.
—Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
In a complaint filed in 2023, Gannett and the other plaintiffs accused Google of violating federal antitrust laws by abusing its dominant position to control and profit from the technology used by publishers to buy and sell ads across the internet.
—USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2025
One of the plaintiffs in the case was Tara Blunt, who, by this point, had withdrawn her son from public school and enrolled him at a private academy, despite the financial strain this imposed on her family.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Bovino appeared before Ellis on Tuesday after the plaintiffs accused him of throwing a tear gas canister into a crowd of demonstrators without justification or warning – a characterization DHS has refuted.
—Devan Cole, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Forty minutes will be allocated to the solicitor general, 20 minutes reserved for a representative speaking on behalf of private parties (American small business plaintiffs), and 20 minutes reserved for the dozen states that sued the administration over the tariffs.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plaintiffs
complainants
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The complainants argued that in fact, IEEPA doesn’t give the president power to impose taxes or tariffs at all, and it hasn’t been used to do so during any of the 69 times it’s been invoked since it was established in 1977.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
21 Oct. 2025
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Court filings from a 2023 $75 million class-action settlement with Epstein’s victims reveal how Deutsche Bank became what the complainants alleged was the financial backbone of Epstein’s criminal enterprise from 2013 to 2018.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Plaintiffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaintiffs. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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