suing

verb

present participle of sue
1
as in asking

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2
as in prosecuting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suing
  1. asking
  2. prosecuting
  3. invoking
  4. trying
  5. requesting
  6. citing
  7. desiring
  8. implicating
Verb
  • That same day, at least one student received a disciplinary notice asking them to schedule a meeting with the student conduct administrator in less than two weeks.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • One example would be asking the agent to book a medical appointment.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of asking
Verb
  • Such arrests have profound impacts on the lives and reputations of those falsely accused and take valuable resources away from prosecuting actual perpetrators.
    — Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
  • At the time, Guilfoyle was an assistant DA in San Francisco prosecuting a high-profile dog-mauling case and making the rounds on cable news.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of prosecuting
Verb
  • Becerra goes for the jugular against Hilton by invoking Huntington Beach!
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • China is embracing the idea of competition without confrontation, by invoking an academic concept.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of invoking
Verb
  • Hamas has denied trying to carry out attacks or rebuild its arsenal and accuses Israel of undermining the Gaza peace deal.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Swift appears as a spectral figure trying to warn Johnson that, based on her own experience, her rich husband has more sinister intentions than his current bride imagines.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of trying
Verb
  • McKinsey responded to his wife's court filing by requesting a domestic violence protection order against her and filing for divorce.
    — TERRY CHEA, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • At the start of the bodycam footage obtained by Page Six, Milania could be heard requesting to speak to her mother.
    — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • Other countries have also scrapped cash-for-residency programs, citing concerns ranging from dirty money to housing affordability.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But neither source absolutely predicts whether 2026 will be a record-warm year, the spokesperson said, citing NOAA physical scientist Russell Vose.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of citing
Verb
  • But, like a libertine desiring undiscovered pleasures, his appetite for new sensations only seemed to grow with time.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Simply desiring to change the United States’ habit of waging war has not been enough to change it.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of desiring
Verb
  • That would let prosecutors ask a grand jury to charge Hearn again if new evidence were discovered implicating him in vandalizing the pool.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.
    — Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of implicating
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“Suing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suing. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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