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implore

[im-plawr] / ɪmˈplɔr /


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And as corny as that may seem, I implore you: If you have even one microscopic iota of curiosity, see this film.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Today U.S. allies implore Ukraine for drone help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

"I implore everybody not just to make their wishes known but to talk to their friends and their family and also find out what their friends and family want," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

We implore you to join us in concrete action:

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

I can only cry out and implore, “Oh, ring, ring, open wide and let us out!”

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

He implores Congress to invoke this clause to make a case for new voting rights legislation that can address the post-Callais landscape.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

In the blog post, Gates also implores rich nations to restore funding cuts that the foundation said led to the rise in deaths among children last year.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Charlie’s father implores his son—“tell me what to do”— and says he’d rather have Charlie alive and hating him than dead on the streets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

With a fee that she purloins from a church collection plate, she implores him for help and he agrees, as he learns more about this young girl’s challenging childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025

"Every class and every individual must help us create the new Reich," Hitler implores.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Spencer said that during a separate call he implored Charles not to force William and Harry to walk behind their mother’s coffin during a public funeral procession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

During her set she implored Rodrigo to make the festival an annual tradition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

She implored Moroccan authorities and King Mohammad VI to "do the impossible to bring back our children".

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

This is a topic that is raised in these pages from time to time — most recently by this reader who implored more Americans to start saving early and not to be intimidated by money.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

“You don’t have to go,” she implored with a touch of loneliness in her voice.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

For years, we have ended the Supreme Court term with our Slate readers and Amicus listeners imploring us: “But what can we do?”

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2026

These same people are now hard at work imploring Moreno, “just don’t read The Times today.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

But in a way, you were doing exactly that with your friend by imploring him to shift his funds into assets that would yield a return of 8% to 9%, even before inflation.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Kalshi sent a letter to Arizona’s attorney general imploring that the state withdraw the charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

She looked at me, imploring, “Percy, please ...” I could move again.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan




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