petitioner
Example Sentences
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The petitioner on Tuesday is First Choice, which runs five pro-life pregnancy centers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Damon Landor, the petitioner, wore long dreadlocks for almost 20 years as an expression of his beliefs as a Rastafarian – part of a biblical practice known as the “Nazarite vow.”
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2025
The petitioner does not ask the court to create new doctrine, only to restore the one already written into the Fourth Amendment: that reasonableness is a question of context, not of isolated frames.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2025
"This approach accorded entirely with the relevant rules and guidance and in any event was not unfair to the petitioner," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
In all but one, the government was the petitioner.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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