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the supplicants
noun
One who comes to humbly ask or petition
Exact(34)
We're the supplicants here".
The overlap between the supplicants there and the supplicants to the comptroller is significant.
Some of the supplicants are friends.
The goal wasn't to please all the supplicants; the goal was to resist getting too comfortable.
But some requests are outsize enough to make the supplicants sound like indulged children begging Santa to lasso the moon.
LETTER FROM INDIA about Hindu nationalist political boss Bal Thackeray... Describes the supplicants who showed up for his son's birthday.
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Lakers ownership is the supplicant in this case.
In one sense, the supplicant impulse is understandable.
Powell describes an orchard with "twenty-six bruised males planted face up / under the supplicant branches.
Public prayer usually manifests the ego of the supplicant, to the diminishment of a focus on God.
The supplicant was Rick Moranis, the actor who played the nerdy neighbor in the film "Ghostbusters".
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