beseech
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Its inscription "I beseech thee, holy sun of righteousness, be the way" has not been found on any other object, according to historian Helen Geake.
From BBC β Nov. 19, 2023
“I beseech you to control him, if you can.”
From Slate β Nov. 6, 2023
"I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can't, I will."
From Reuters β Nov. 6, 2023
Engoron later told Kise again, "I beseech you to control him if you can."
From Salon β Nov. 6, 2023
At every meal she would beseech him not to be selfish and to remember that his little sister was sick and also needed food, but it was no use.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Her letter beseeches the Administration to move “quickly” and with “urgency” on the federal review needed to expand the Algonquin gas pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
The IRS beseeches taxpayers to avoid paper like the plague: Do not file paper returns and do not ask for a paper refund check if you want timely action.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 29, 2022
TV reporter Bruce Nolan, who beseeches God for divine intervention after he loses a job promotion.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 8, 2019
Over a two-chord throb, Mr. Atkinson beseeches: “Do you need me?/Do you always want me by your side?”
From New York Times β Sep. 22, 2017
If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
He beseeched the U.S. government to dip into the millions of dollars Congress annually allocates to compensate victims of U.S. attacks.
From Salon β Feb. 1, 2024
The United Nations, aid groups and Israeli human rights groups have beseeched Israel to allow water and emergency deliveries of fuel to flow into the Gaza Strip.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 15, 2023
It had previously criticised Beijing for spreading "scientifically unfounded claims", and on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida again beseeched Beijing to look at the research.
From BBC β Aug. 25, 2023
Many in the audience, meanwhile, beseeched the board to rethink the move.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 28, 2023
Some of the boys, with their new Yoruba names, beseeched these girls by citing Frantz Fanon.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Wonderly pleaded guilty, and Emerson besought “compensation under state law.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 31, 2023
Anaheim besought the court’s help but lost, and the team became just the Los Angeles Angels once more.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 23, 2022
As a result, JWST’s development was besought by years of delays and setbacks, causing the project’s budget to grow to nearly $10 billion.
From The Verge β Jul. 11, 2022
Determined, she took the train to Topeka and besought the state attorney general, also to no avail.
From Slate β Sep. 7, 2021
As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
By day three the flip is gone, “and there is no beseeching the island for more. It is time instead to set about the business of surviving.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
Little wonder the local community is beseeching the heavens for rain.
From BBC β Jul. 13, 2025
We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.
From Slate β Jun. 22, 2025
Business and union leaders joined in publicly and privately, beseeching him not to go down this idiotic road.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 4, 2025
And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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