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appeal

[uh-peel] / əˈpil /






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Meta said in a statement it plans to appeal the ruling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Whatever the outcome of the appeal, City fans are likely to continue making their feelings clear before kick-off.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

I understand the appeal of a pocketable tablet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"We are confident we will prevail on appeal."

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

It thus systematically excludes from consideration the very feature which makes scientific arguments distinctive: their appeal to superior evidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

She was initially banned from politics for five years but an appeals court this year paved the way for her to run in the 2027 election to succeed President Emmanuel Macron.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

The doctor-turned-politician has an aggressive bro style that appeals to someone like Watters.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

In April, a US appeals court heard arguments to overturn his prison sentence but has not yet issued a decision.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

SpaceX curbed unauthorized access to the Starlink network inside Ukraine after appeals from Kyiv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

There would be no more appeals, no more records to keep.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The city spokeswoman said the council stepped in only because Damac had appealed the decision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

They appealed and urged the Supreme Court to rule on their case and to clarify the law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Then Salazar appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in Salazar v.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

It has appealed to teachers and students, workers, pensioners and farmers to take part.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

That well-paved world appealed to him, and he missed it as his feet fell on uneven clumps of hardened dirt that threatened to twist his ankles.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

AM arrived in cars in the 1920s as an appealing value-added feature, but nowadays it is a liability for the automakers’ EVs because the signal can interfere with certain systems and requires special shielding.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Turning their shares into tokens would enable round-the-clock trading, appealing to investors who have grown up on crypto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She is also appealing against her sentence, with a hearing scheduled at the Court of Appeal on 5 November.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The idea is appealing because changing when meals are consumed could be easier for some people than substantially changing their diets.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Not that I ever believed that the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manip- ulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles


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