beg

“Don’t tell me, don’t tell me!” you beg.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

“I said to our professionals, ‘Look, if you were running a business that was capacity constrained and had really high margins, you would beg, borrow and steal to expand that business.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"We beg you now to return our mother to us... This is very valuable to us, and we will pay."

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

But as the season draws nearer and a new era of Bruin football begins, all the enthusiasm does beg the question: What does a successful debut actually look like for Chesney at UCLA?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

But she would beg me not to leave.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

That begs the question: How much responsibility does a filmmaker have to take a clear stance in their work, especially in a film that is overtly intended to be a lightning rod for heated debate?

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

For an artist it begs for interpretation — and I just have to illustrate it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The opposite of a guard dog: Golden retriever begs to play with intruder in San Diego break-in.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Which begs the question… would Shaw continue with this work if she did have a sponsor?

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Can we go? Can we go?” my little sister Dina begs.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Melanoma patients and their family members who testified at the hearing disagreed and begged the agency to approve the medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

A bystander begged to help Good, to check her pulse and perform first aid.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Trapped, Norris begged for a different strategy to give himself a chance of victory, and eventually circumstances presented it to him.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Children “dropped everything, ran up to him, begged for candy and wanted to take pictures. Some children even cried and begged him for their freedom. Santa himself acted very indifferent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“My sister Bea has a timesight marvel, and she says dinosaurs aren’t all that great. Very angry all the time. I’ve begged her to take me back there, but...”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"I was crying, literally begging: 'You can't leave me like this'," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

That’s despite the Iran war pushing oil prices above $100 a barrel, a new Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and artificial-intelligence executives publicly begging their own industry to slow down.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

While begging her parents to keep sending her money, Hannah admitted that she thinks of herself as “the voice of my generation. “Or at least a voice.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The boys laugh at her afflictions, but the smile turns to shame when she later shows up at the Waldrop home begging forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

It’s like when you’re hearing a great story from Scheherazade and you’re seeing past the thing to the main thing—past the adventures of the orphans to Scheherazade herself, begging to stay alive another day.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri