lawsuits

noun

plural of lawsuit
as in suits
a court case for enforcing a right or claim the homeowner filed a lawsuit against the moving company that was refusing to be held responsible for damaging her furniture

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Recent Examples of lawsuits The companies say a flood of lawsuits in state courts is not the way to deal with the global issue. — Lindsay Whitehurst, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026 Yet two multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the network blame it for what happened. — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026 The protection of the crowd The use of pseudonyms like Jane Doe in lawsuits has grown in recent decades, said Diana Simon, a professor of law at the University of Arizona. — Deepti Hajela, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Shortly after Novig launched, the company slapped multiple states with lawsuits, asserting states cannot regulate the platform’s sports event contracts. — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026 Every year, the British royal family finds itself at the center of a lot of lawsuits. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2026 The lawsuits from New York Times, from every major media outlet, disregarding just stealing things from my perspective and ingesting is totally inappropriate. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2026 The advertisement, approved by Hamilton, follows a report from the New York Times that detailed Marshall’s former OB-GYN practice sued over 700 patients for unpaid medical bills, with 81 of the lawsuits resulting in arrests. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026 Numerous lawsuits allege that an older version of ChatGPT powered by GPT-4o even drove users to suicide. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lawsuits
  1. suits
  2. actions
  3. complaints
  4. proceedings
Noun
  • The Princess of Wales regularly sports suits by Burberry and Roland Mouret for daytime engagements and public outings.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That remains a possible outcome, but Monday’s argument kept open the prospect that a conservative majority will rule to block the climate-change suits.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of suits
Noun
  • Arrests near schools or colleges have increased, though enforcement actions on campuses are extremely uncommon.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Similar actions have come from Tennessee, Kentucky, and beyond.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of actions
Noun
  • But their complaints come as Lecornu's government seeks to rein in public spending to appease skittish bond markets, which have punished France more harshly than many of its peers this year, amid a global bond market rout.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Once on the road, the data could be used to detect issues and to improve the driving experience, without needing to wait for complaints or returns.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of complaints
Noun
  • The court proceedings lasted nearly a year, from November 1945 to October 1946, in Nuremberg, the city where the race laws of 1935 were established, which led to the Holocaust.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
  • In Ukraine, the prosecutor general's office told NPR that national police are still conducting a pretrial investigation into the deaths of Kuvshynova and Zakrzewski in advance of possible criminal proceedings against Russian forces.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of proceedings

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“Lawsuits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawsuits. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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