SUING Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

suing

verb

present participle of sue

as in asking

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as in prosecuting

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Organizations often compete for the same experienced talent rather than asking who is creating the capability everyone wants to hire.

— Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Four baby goats from a North Carolina mobile petting zoo tested positive for rabies and were euthanized, and health officials are asking anyone who may have had contact with them to reach out for possible treatment.

— Dennis Romero, NBC news, 29 Aug. 2026

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Johnson has repeatedly spoken out about how Missouri’s gun laws have hampered prosecuting the case, after two of the men charged in the shooting received plea agreements.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026
Human Rights Watch called on the Colombian government to devote more resources to prosecuting members of armed groups who recruit children, while stepping up efforts to prevent recruitment in rural areas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of prosecuting

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In practice, invoking a Tuey-Rodriguez charge or instruction is often done with the hopes a jury will be able to reach a verdict, but is also a step judges are generally expected to take before declaring a mistrial in Massachusetts.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Certainly, by lifting part of the museum off the ground, invoking the freeway and framing the long stretch of Wilshire, Zumthor has constructed a worthy metonym for LA.

— Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of invoking

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According to a report on Wednesday from The Information, citing a person familiar with the matter, another 22 former Salesforce employees at OpenAI are in talks to return.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
In August 2025, Cartwright filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of citing

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Simply desiring to change the United States’ habit of waging war has not been enough to change it.

— Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026
But Newcastle intend to use the proceeds from the Tonali sale to reinvest in their squad, with Howe desiring a goalkeeper, at least one full-back, two midfielders (should Joe Willock also leave) and at least one attacker.

— David Ornstein, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of desiring

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In her depiction of the exhausting vigilance this reality required, through a second-person voice cannily implicating her reader, Rankine created a new language to identify a problem as old as the United States.

— Charles Finch, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Around the same time as Høiby’s trial began, a second scandal erupted, this time implicating Mette-Marit herself.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

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