plea
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Appeared in the February 5, 2026, print edition as 'Savannah Guthrie Posts Plea For the Return of Her Mother'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Plea agreements are perhaps the most obvious example: Typically, a prosecutor and a defendant will agree on the terms of the plea—what charges the defendant will plead to and what sentence they will serve.
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2024
Plea deals are carefully negotiated between defense lawyers and prosecutors over the course of weeks or months and it’s unusual - especially in high-profile cases - for judges to not sign off on them.
From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023
The portmanteau of "breakfast" and "lunch" was first coined in 1895, thanks to Guy Beringer, a British writer who penned an article titled "Brunch: A Plea" in Hunter's Weekly.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2023
It was considered perfectly acceptable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Latin scholars—notably Henry Alford in his book A Plea for the Queens English—misguidedly called it a crime.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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