entreaty
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There’s also a tangible entreaty for global communities to lean on the networks and relationships they have—with their neighbors, schools, civil organizations, governments, and corporations—and address an issue everyone agrees we should be worried about.
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
Producer Patrick Spence also made an impassioned entreaty: "It's not over. We beg you... get the story out."
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Such an entreaty could be an effective reminder too, that the chatbots are made from us.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
I cannot refuse either entreaty and be a pirate in good conscience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
The look on her face was half entreaty, half glare.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Though he advised Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign in 1968, Greenspan resisted entreaties to serve in the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
After repeated entreaties to tamp down her spending, Girardi tried for the first time to look at her balance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
In one of his most passionate entreaties yet to end the raging conflict in the Middle East, the American pope said faith was needed "in order to face this dramatic hour in history together".
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
August and I wait outside, listening to passionate entreaties and tongue clicks.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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