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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
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
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
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
It begs the question and adds to the suspense about these managers being products of a system at USG.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
All that begs the question: How radical is the DSA?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The album begs the question: What’s a “normal life” to a liberated woman?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
It also begs a question: what happened to the hundreds of thousands of dogs once bred for human consumption?
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
“Promise me you won’t say a word, Wolowitz,” Inkling begs.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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The lines got so bad at one point that aviation-industry officials begged the president of the European Commission to ease up on the new rules through the summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
A bystander begged to help Good, to check her pulse and perform first aid.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 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 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
“Tonantzin! Madre Santa, forgive me,” the nagual begged, as he cowered away from the radiance of the goddess.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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"She was begging for help," she said of a woman she described as a "very nurturing, very loving" mother.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
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
The Rams are not begging, but with training camp opening Saturday at Loyola Marymount, they’re miles past hinting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Didn’t want anyone begging for my orange or teasing me for getting it.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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