plea
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Exciting as Baumbick’s message was to dealers, it was also a plea for patience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
He was charged in Ventura County Superior Court on Monday, according to court records, and did not enter a plea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
A trial before a High Court judge is scheduled for 8 June next year, and a plea and case management hearing on 29 January.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
He even made headlines after he disappeared in 2022 and Kaplanis posted a Facebook plea for his safe return.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
They all picked up the refrain, asking again and again in a rising plea: Mother May I?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The agency said firefighters were "aggressively attacking the fire from ground and air" and issued repeated pleas for people to stay clear of the area.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
They instead stood out against the other evangelicals who made pleas for a sense of decorum and human dignity.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The guilty pleas came shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation barring third-party brokers from advertising, selling or transferring tee-time reservations at publicly owned golf courses without the written consent of the course operator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
All pleas and requests for information fell on deaf ears in the months that followed.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was insensible to the pleas for clemency.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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