Thesaurus results for ATTORNEYS

attorneys

noun

plural of attorney

as in representatives

a person who acts or does business for another talked to the count's attorney about buying land from his estate

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

as in lawyers

a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations finished law school and became an attorney

Synonyms & Similar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of attorneys His order bars Essayli from participating in or supervising their cases, including overseeing the attorneys handling them. — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Prosecutors had asked Caproni to sentence each brother to life in prison, while their attorneys sought the 15-year minimum. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 And, one of Thompson’s subordinates knew that Rusinowski may have been stealing meds a month before Thompson found out and didn’t say anything, the attorneys stated. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026 Court records do not yet list attorneys for Blaisdell and Roberts. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026 That added up to roughly $27,000 or more in expenses, based on the attorneys’ average hourly rate for each billing period. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026 When attorneys transact a merger between two retail giants like Albertsons and Kroger, a standard strategy to address anticompetitive concerns is to spin off a new competitor. — Shubha Ghosh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 This level of financial clarity also saves attorneys’ time and fees because the hard conversations have been had in advance. — Catherine Shanahan, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 One issue raised by his attorneys was Florida's method of execution. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for attorneys

Noun

Jong-kyu Hwang, Hanwha Power’s Vice President of Technology Solutions, attended alongside senior ABS representatives.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Its sales representatives are individually building personal Gmail scripts, at night, in Google Apps Script, to survive an inbox that the AI-first version of the same company would have automated a year ago.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of representatives

Noun

Prosecutors had sought life prison sentences while the brothers’ lawyers had requested the 15-year mandatory minimum.

— Larry Neumeister, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
Key witness testimonies changed over time, the court excluded significant exculpatory evidence and judicial rulings skewed the jury’s view of the evidence against Masterson, his lawyers alleged at the time.

— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of lawyers

Noun

While county police officers became deputies under Cordero-Stutz’s authority, county correctional officers remained under Levine Cava’s authority.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Videos posted on social media show deputies also used pepper spray as race attendees surrounded them and threw objects.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of deputies

Noun

Late last month, roughly 100 dockworker delegates from four countries rallied outside DP World’s Centerm terminal at the Port of Vancouver, following an international anti-automation summit that included Montreal’s own CUPE Local 375.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
The French gêne par procuration delegates discomfort, while the German Fremdschämen means foreign shame.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of delegates

Noun

In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.

— Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of agents

Noun

Both pitching staffs demonstrated their depth in Friday night's opener, and managing pitch counts will be vital as both managers try to keep their bullpens fresh for the upcoming travel day.

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
That same month, Huang announced a partnership with six large asset managers on a $500 billion financing push designed to treat compute infrastructure as an asset class.

— Kif Leswing,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of managers

Noun

The initiative is also part of a cooperation Program for the cinema and audiovisual sectors signed in June 2026 by Italian and French cultural ministers, and with an expert group meeting for the first time at the MIA conference.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
With tensions rising between Israel’s far-right ministers and Hamas, the arrangement had run its course, Qatar believed.

— Eric Cortellessa, Time, 18 Oct. 2026