as in plaintiffs
the person in a legal proceeding who makes a charge of wrongdoing against another
the complainant charged that the defendant had broken the ironclad contract that both had signed
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The lawyers took down affidavits from the plaintiffs’ immigration attorneys—the men themselves were unreachable—and crafted an argument to protect a wider class of migrants in custody.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2025 -
There is a lot of fear amongst these plaintiffs.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Complainants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complainants. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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