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petition

verb as in plead, appeal for

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The government's plan to introduce compulsory digital ID for people to prove their right to work in the UK has seen more than 2.8 million people signing a petition against the idea.

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Grijalva, for her part, said that she thinks Johnson is trying to buy time to convince one of the four Republican lawmakers who signed the Epstein petition — Reps.

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If sworn in, her vote would be the necessary 218th vote in a procedural attempt to put forward a petition to release the Epstein files.

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An online petition dubbed the fee a "memory tax", with commenters calling it "dystopian" and "ridiculous" - while one person threatened never to use the app again.

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Samuel Merritt University, a private nonprofit university in Oakland, petitioned the state board to add 72 seats to the nursing program at its Sacramento campus.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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