behalf
Example Sentences
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Only a court-appointed executor or administrator generally has the authority to act on behalf of the probate estate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
CNN released a statement praising Holmes for asking “a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people” and calling personal insults “beneath the office.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
When the BBC’s legal team did exactly that, Secret Service counsel Troy Epstein flatly declared the agency was neither authorized to accept service on the family’s behalf nor willing to help facilitate it.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
However, she had previously published one book called How Not to Dal Dy Dir under the alias Izzy Wyn-Thomas, her lawyers confirmed on her behalf in the BBC Sounds podcast Secrets of the Salt Path.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sorry I couldn't attend the service, but I had urgent business on behalf of TokNation.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Vocabulary lists containing behalf
"My Favorite Chaperone," Vocabulary from the short story
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (1952)
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