suing

verb

Definition of suingnext
present participle of sue
1
as in asking

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2
as in prosecuting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suing
  1. asking
  2. prosecuting
  3. invoking
  4. trying
  5. requesting
  6. citing
  7. requiring
  8. insisting
Verb
  • Rather than asking the reader to identify the important information, the candidate decides which points are most relevant and highlights that data.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
  • Bonnyrigg Rose is asking fans to pitch in £100,000 ($127,000) to level its sloping pitch out.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of asking
Verb
  • Milwaukee leaders announced a new effort to curtail repeat reckless driving through more firmly prosecuting the crime.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The attorney’s effort is aimed at prosecuting reckless drivers more reliably at the state level, which requires someone to be cited for a second time or more.
    David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of prosecuting
Verb
  • Throughout the two-hour show, the pair cashed in on all the attention with a breathless, rave-invoking performance threaded by mini-sets — three Charli songs here, two Sivan ones there — that leaned heavily on their latest albums.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of invoking
Verb
  • Police are still trying to better understand what led to the shooting.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.
    Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of trying
Verb
  • New York City customers also have the option of requesting their items be picked up at their homes with their online orders.
    Kanika Talwar, WWD, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Now, Landry has issued an executive order declaring natural gas to be clean energy and requesting that the Biden administration lift all rules and regulations limiting the export of natural gas.
    Nolan McKendry | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • The company last August booked a $9 billion write-down on the value of its cable networks, citing the loss of NBA rights starting in mid-2025.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But in August, the bond measure was withdrawn, with proponents citing uneven polling and litigation.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of citing
Verb
  • Until now, this joining method has been passive, requiring force for engagement.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • As a threat, for instance, to produce even more effective phishing emails or malware, requiring more protective controls.
    Saket Modi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of requiring
Verb
  • The latest lawsuit, filed in Seattle in August by a group of gamers, alleges Valve practices anticompetitive behaviors, like insisting publishers match Steam’s prices even selling through other channels and retaliating against companies that don’t conform by removing their games from Steam.
    Stephen Pastis, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Artisan caused ripples by insisting on a prime summer release, at a time when independents, even Miramax, were discouraged because of full release schedules with top titles and at that time fewer screens in an average cinema.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of insisting
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