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petitioned
adjective as in requested
adjective as in solicited
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
It has been protected by the state since 2020, after the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned it be listed as threatened.
George Gascón petitioned a judge to have their sentences reduced to 50 years in prison.
Creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds petitioned a court to force the company into liquidation so that Liberty Steel's assets can be sold to pay the debts owed.
In 2008, some 1,400 residents in Serangoon Gardens, an upper middle-class neighbourhood, petitioned against the construction of a migrant worker dormitory near their homes.
The brothers were each serving a life sentence with no hope of release until Gascón petitioned for their resentencing last year, a move Hochman opposed both on the campaign trail and then in court.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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