pleas
Example Sentences
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When Savitt informed Wachtell leadership that he and five other partners would be leaving for Gibson Dunn, people familiar with the conversations said leaders made emotional pleas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Over the course of months, investigators made a couple of detentions and conducted a few searches as the Guthrie family made a series of emotional pleas to the kidnappers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Moody said Bush's guilty pleas had brought her some peace of mind.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
This week, the Guilford County board rejected pleas from students at North Carolina A&T, the country’s largest historically Black university, for a site near the center of campus.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Purebom heard her pleas from the great wooden seats of their ancestors, rising in curved tiers from a marble floor to a high-domed ceiling painted with scenes of Qarth's vanished glory.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
