petitioner
Britishnoun
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a person who presents a petition
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the plaintiff in a divorce suit
Example Sentences
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The petitioner, listed as the Los Angeles Turf Club, seeks that the 3X3 wager be deemed legal for concluded races as it is with live races.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
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
In all but one, the government was the petitioner.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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