plea
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The touching midtempo plea to a lover for attention is an album highlight: “If you try and come see me and I’m not there / Tell me you tried so I know you care.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
After the guilty plea in Jennifer's murder, her brother Jason began to campaign to "make these things better in the future"
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
As part of the plea agreement, Valdovinos Ramirez will pay a fine of $50,000 before he is sentenced on Sept. 21, as well as $310,000 in restitution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Under his plea deal with US authorities, Zambada faced a mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment without parole on a racketeering charge.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Defendants are typically denied meaningful legal representation, pressured by the threat of lengthy sentences into a plea bargain, and then placed under formal control—in prison or jail, on probation or parole.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Over the past few years, the Justice Department obtained guilty pleas from about 60 companies a year, according to data from law firm Gibson Dunn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
But last week, the replies were inundated with complaints that Letterboxd had defected to the corporate dark side, along with fearful pleas for the platform’s owners to reconsider.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
"I haven't slept since this tragedy happened. I post pleas for help, for donations, I reconnect people. Everything is needed and I get thousands of messages," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
The appearance is the culmination of Oliver’s pleas to soap opera producers during the March 8 installment of his show that they consider him for a part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Before the sentence was to be passed, there were two pleas in mitigation.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Vocabulary lists containing plea
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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