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suppliants

noun

plural of suppliant

as in supplicants

one who asks earnestly for a favor or gift didn't like being in the position of a suppliant, having to ask her parents to help her pay the rent on her apartment

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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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By calling for the early review, the FCC allowed petitioners and ordinary residents to chime in on the stations’ operations and ABC network programming.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Chong was also among the petitioners who in November 2025 called for the FCC to repeal its news distortion policy, which FCC Chair Brendan Carr has invoked in threatening broadcast licenses.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 28 July 2026

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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
The War In times of peace, Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) had hosted parties in their palace for all — even beggars were welcome.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026

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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

Definition of solicitors

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Meanwhile, her two former suitors became rather close after spending a considerable amount of time as rivals.

— Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026
But the idea that really a violation of xenia, a violation of Zeus’ Law — which is what the suitors are doing in the palace — that really is the [breaking] of Zeus’ Law that is causing this difficulty and this damage.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

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