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petition

noun as in appeal, plea

verb as in plead, appeal for

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Ms Curtiss helped to start a petition in 2021 and called on local health boards to "update their antiquated policies".

From BBC

An online petition he started to oppose Chuckwalla has more than 2,200 signatures.

He has repeatedly petitioned Newport council to grant him access to Docksway Landfill to search for the missing hard drive.

From BBC

“Cole Brings Plenty, an Indigenous man, has tragically become another statistic in the alarming trend of violence against Indigenous people,” said an April Change.org petition demanding justice for the late actor.

More than 400 of his classmates at William & Mary Law School signed a petition declaring him “unfit to write or determine the law.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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