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An online petition with over a million signatures has asked Globo to implement a live fact-checking system for claims made by both candidates during the debate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Multiple Sundial staff members quit in protest, while some circulated a petition calling for the publication to cease operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

A group of citizens began circulating a petition late in July to give residents the ability to vote on whether data centers should be allowed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Another group collected signatures for its own petition that opposed separation, which was signed by more than 400,000 people.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I see a screen featuring the petition she referred to.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Some Airbnb hosts aren’t happy, especially about the dirty dishes policy, and have started petitions to reverse the new policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

She made it easier for them to hold a vote, lowering the number of signatures needed on petitions to trigger a referendum and giving them more time to collect them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Ahead of the verdict, a total of 13 petitions seeking leniency were said to have been submitted to the court.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Most obviously, Justice Brett Kavanaugh acts as the circuit justice who is assigned primary responsibility for reviewing petitions from the 8th Circuit.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

One of Ruby Archuleta’s Milagro Land and Water Protection Association petitions was making the rounds, and, laughing triumphantly, people were signing like mad.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

That, however, never happened and an attorney eventually petitioned for his release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

After being stung by the price swings, farmers petitioned Congress, and future U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

The lawsuit, filed in South Carolina state court on Thursday by Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Co. and Southern Atlantic Re, comes days after state Insurance Director Michael Wise petitioned to place both companies into rehabilitation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Eighteen parishioners successfully petitioned the Duke of Beaufort to remove Byfield from the position.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

He invited researchers from around the world to present scientific papers on cancer in minorities, and he petitioned the city of Atlanta to name October 11, the date of the conference, Henrietta Lacks Day.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Cherneff: Almost immediately after emancipation in Maryland, there were reports of parents petitioning for the freedom of their children.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

But when Hopkins began petitioning Amazon to stop selling any other titles that contain the word, she crossed a line.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Constellation is petitioning the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to bypass that delay.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

In 2009, after petitioning the court to have her ailing father placed under a conservatorship, Catherine was permitted to visit Peter Falk, who was suffering from dementia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

“Then pardon me while I have one. My system is petitioning for appeasement.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole