Thesaurus results for SUPPLICATIONS

supplications

noun

plural of supplication

as in prayers

an earnest request the Red Cross made an urgent supplication for donations of food and blankets for the earthquake victims

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Recent Examples of supplications There were many other signs that Xi would not readily yield to Trump’s supplications. — Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026 Late nights and anxious supplications. — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025

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Jewish clergy, interfaith leaders and community members came together at the Horowitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza for a 45-minute service featuring prayers, songs and firsthand accounts of the violence that unfolded 88 years ago.

— Eva Andersen, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Sometimes Lisa Huberman, the social action engagement associate at UMBC Hillel, arrives with Jewish students preparing for a Friday evening gathering while Muslim students are concluding their prayers.

— Kyle Desrosiers-Levine, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

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The Planning and Land Use Management Committee instructed the city Planning Department in October 2025 to explore alternative price points for appeals that would decrease the amount of money the city’s general fund would have to subsidize.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
That is true, but evidence suggests that such altruistic appeals could fail to increase vaccination and might even backfire.

— Jessica Fishman, STAT, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of appeals

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Though not initially successful, Galston’s and Palme’s pleas, along with the work of several other individuals and organizations, set the groundwork for future consideration of ecocide as a crime against nature.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Nov. 2026
In 2007, federal prosecutors in South Florida negotiated a non-prosecution agreement that spared Epstein federal charges in exchange for guilty pleas to lesser state offenses.

— Anna Rahmanan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of pleas

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Most of these people were freed through habeas corpus petitions, which let detainees challenge the government’s legal right to imprison them.

— Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 6 Nov. 2026
The state spends more than $200 million a year to adjudicate automatic death penalty appeals and habeas corpus petitions for inmates who, in all likelihood, will never be executed, according to a 2025 report by the Habeas Corpus Resource Center.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of petitions

Noun

To date, no criminal charges have been brought against either company, both of which are identified as unnamed co-conspirators in criminal pleadings.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2026
After pleadings and petitions from the Portuguese community in Fall River, de Mello was released in January 1914 after serving approximately 21 years and was deported to Portugal.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026

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