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Change the herbs accordingly: chives and parsley are excellent with giardiniera, while Mexican-style pickled carrots practically beg for cilantro and oregano.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Robert added: "When your child is dying, you shouldn't have to beg to get help that she's entitled to."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Recent high-profile museum heists beg the question: What can be done to ensure your personal collection doesn’t meet the same fate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
After deadly twin quakes in Venezuela, survivor Rubén Darío Sillie used social media to beg for help amid a severely delayed and criticized government response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
If he couldn’t sneak onto the Valerie like last time, he’d beg the captain to take him.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
The album begs the question: What’s a “normal life” to a liberated woman?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
It begs the question what next for Spain's conductor?
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It begs the question, why couldn't it have been tested to the north of the Pacific Ocean, where there is an expanse of international waters?" he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
He begs to be let out, with Mr. Lucas providing the voice of his own likeness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
That night, Natasha tries to convince me to follow her to the fire hydrant, and Khalil begs me to go for a ride with him.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Boyle Heights was reaching a breaking point as a deadline passed to clean up 88 million pounds of rotten food from the burned-down warehouse and residents begged for relief from the horrifying stench.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
A bystander begged to help Good, to check her pulse and perform first aid.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Voters have begged politicians for years to do something about energy prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"My parents weren't going to let me go on holiday originally. I begged them to let me as it was the last few weeks to spend time with my friends before I move away."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Please come to the girls’ hut tonight,” begged Masvita.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
"She was begging for help," Clancy's former mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, said of a woman she described as a "very nurturing, very loving" mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
He also reportedly told then-chief of staff Mark Meadows the situation was “getting really ugly” as it unfolded, while Trump Jr. texted Meadows begging him to get his father to “condemn this” immediately.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
“I’m asking you, begging you, to do the right thing now,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
US television star journalist Savannah Guthrie made an emotional appeal Saturday for anyone with information about her mother's disappearance to come forward, saying "we are begging for help" six months after the kidnapping took place.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
She wondered if right now he was begging the other monks for forgiveness or trying to lie his way out of this.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
