as in begged
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
petitioned the judge to be excused from jury duty for financial hardship
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Recent Examples of petitioned
Earlier this month, his legal team petitioned the Indiana Supreme Court to halt the execution, but the request was denied, clearing the way for the state to proceed.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Last week, Hochman removed two deputy district attorneys who had petitioned to have the brothers’ sentences reduced from the post-conviction unit.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
Back in October, the father-of-three was petitioned to cancel his show in South Africa.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Siri petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in 2022 to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine on behalf of an anti-vaccination advocacy group.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Curtis, Wicker and Holland had history as the Presley impersonator had long petitioned them and their family members to take interest in his bill to ban the sale of body parts in Mississippi.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
What to Know The Catholic Charities Bureau, which is based in Superior, Wisconsin, petitioned the Supreme Court after Wisconsin's state Supreme Court denied the organization a religious exemption from paying unemployment taxes.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
His past history of vaccine skepticism — newly bolstered by his hiring of lawyer Aaron Siri, who has petitioned for a variety of vaccines to be withdrawn — has given Senate Republicans pause.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Dec. 2024
In 2010, the Center petitioned for federal protections for eastern hellbenders.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Last week, Hochman removed two deputy district attorneys who had petitioned to have the brothers’ sentences reduced from the post-conviction unit.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 17 Dec. 2024
Back in October, the father-of-three was petitioned to cancel his show in South Africa.
—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Siri petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in 2022 to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine on behalf of an anti-vaccination advocacy group.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Curtis, Wicker and Holland had history as the Presley impersonator had long petitioned them and their family members to take interest in his bill to ban the sale of body parts in Mississippi.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
What to Know The Catholic Charities Bureau, which is based in Superior, Wisconsin, petitioned the Supreme Court after Wisconsin's state Supreme Court denied the organization a religious exemption from paying unemployment taxes.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
His past history of vaccine skepticism — newly bolstered by his hiring of lawyer Aaron Siri, who has petitioned for a variety of vaccines to be withdrawn — has given Senate Republicans pause.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Dec. 2024
In 2010, the Center petitioned for federal protections for eastern hellbenders.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Petitioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petitioned. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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