suppliants

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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Noun
  • At best, the rulers who met in Doha on Monday act as supplicants, relying on the whims of a unpredictable US president to intercede with Israel’s leader.
    Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In May, recall petitioners submitted 10,500 valid signatures to qualify the initiative for Tuesday’s ballot.
    Janie Har, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Wichita Falls City Council passed a rule allowing the moving of kids' books to the adults' section if at least 300 petitioners asked the library.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In Havana, beggars are ubiquitous.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Got a lot of mountains to climb, had to leave some beggars behind.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Has Irwin seen any of the messages from his hopeful suitors who are reaching out to Carson just yet?
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That bride still has many suitors, waving billion-dollar checks at her.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Suppliants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppliants. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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