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Rubio met Modi over the weekend, and extended an invitation on behalf of Trump to visit the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Will traditional credit-card payment rails remain relevant in a world where artificial-intelligence agents end up making payments on a consumer’s behalf?
From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026
Many of the individual plaintiffs and members of the union making the complaint on their behalf aren’t Christian at all.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
Crooks ended the show by presenting Scott with a picture of herself and Bob Wilson, on behalf of the "Football Focus family".
From BBC • May 24, 2026
Such names are themselves priority claims, made on behalf of the original discoverers by their admirers, and the implicit analogy is with the naming of America.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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