solicitors

plural of solicitor
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as in seducers
one that tries to get a person to give in to a desire money, that great solicitor that has often succeeded in persuading people to sell their very souls

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as in petitioners
one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift even a billionaire doesn't have the wherewithal to grant the wish of every deserving solicitor who comes his way

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Recent Examples of solicitors Brooks said her family has encountered plenty of door-to-door solicitors over the years, but never one knocking that late at night. — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 In the early 1970s, in the midst of an oil crisis, my father ran a solicitors' firm. — Rupert Lee-Browne, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026 But the long-running saga involving the scion of a prominent and powerful family of local lawyers and solicitors took an unexpected turn this week when the South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the murder convictions. — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 15 May 2026 Three generations served as solicitors on the state’s 14th Circuit, while maintaining a lucrative private law practice in Hampton County. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Nov. 2025 That clarification will take the form of a deposition, which is expected to take place in front of British solicitors in December or early 2026. — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Nov. 2025 Unauthorized vendors or solicitors of any kind. — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Sep. 2025 Phishing texts claiming that tolls haven’t been paid or packages can’t be delivered, calls from solicitors promising to erase debt, malware emails offering winnings from a sweepstakes that no one ever entered. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Control of the criminal term was ceded to the race-baiters and radical left in an act of political mollification.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Rage baiters, in short, reflect the dark side of the attention economy.
    — Roger J. Kreuz, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Challenges with this step can lead to petitioners giving up on their cases.
    — Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Currently, the number petitioners would need to reach is 3,120.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Yet three successive Democratic presidential campaigns willfully ignored these flashing sirens, instead insisting that Green New Deals and diversity, equity and inclusion programs would appeal to working-class Latino men.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Her joy in teaching offers children an escape from a war that has trained them to reflexively head for safety when air-raid sirens sound.
    — Sara Llana, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars.
    — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • More than anything, in the halo headpieces that are her signature accessory, Mary recalls a medieval religious icon, the Holy Virgin as fictional diva, touching down on stages in major markets to be adored by seas of light-waving supplicants.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026

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“Solicitors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solicitors. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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