as in complainants
the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another
the judge ruled that the plaintiff's lawsuit was groundless, and he dismissed it
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Recent Examples of plaintiffs
Police arrested or ticketed people, many of whom became plaintiffs in a later lawsuit in which an appellate court ruled the curfew didn't violate protesters' First Amendment rights.
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Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The three plaintiffs are among the most senior and lauded FBI agents to have worked at the Bureau in recent memory.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
The athletes’ mothers, Maribel Munoz and Hanan Hazameh, are also named plaintiffs.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Iowa officials reached the agreement with the plaintiffs after spending over three years in court, the Des Moines Register reported on Tuesday.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
The court consolidated two separate cases in which plaintiffs – seven small businesses and a dozen states — have successfully challenged the legality of the tariffs at issue.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Newsweek reached out to the State Department via contact form and original plaintiffs AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) via email for comment Tuesday afternoon.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The plaintiffs are being represented by the law firm Advocates for Faith & Freedom.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The lawyers took down affidavits from the plaintiffs’ immigration attorneys—the men themselves were unreachable—and crafted an argument to protect a wider class of migrants in custody.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The three plaintiffs are among the most senior and lauded FBI agents to have worked at the Bureau in recent memory.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
The athletes’ mothers, Maribel Munoz and Hanan Hazameh, are also named plaintiffs.
—Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Iowa officials reached the agreement with the plaintiffs after spending over three years in court, the Des Moines Register reported on Tuesday.
—Samantha Riedel, Them., 10 Sep. 2025
The court consolidated two separate cases in which plaintiffs – seven small businesses and a dozen states — have successfully challenged the legality of the tariffs at issue.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Newsweek reached out to the State Department via contact form and original plaintiffs AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) via email for comment Tuesday afternoon.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The plaintiffs are being represented by the law firm Advocates for Faith & Freedom.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The lawyers took down affidavits from the plaintiffs’ immigration attorneys—the men themselves were unreachable—and crafted an argument to protect a wider class of migrants in custody.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plaintiffs
complainants
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Perhaps this summer’s most common complainants have been Aston Villa.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Plaintiffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaintiffs. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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