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A coalition of seven business and retirement-industry groups argues that plaintiffs should have to plead comparators that are “actually comparable,” not just any fund that happened to do better.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

I’m no expert, but I don’t think their mating rituals involve using the New York Times to plead their case or, when that doesn’t work, threatening to move en masse to Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ye Lin, who is from Myanmar, told the court through an interpreter that he intended to plead guilty, according to local media reports.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

She scheduled a last-minute news conference with nursing staff from Kansas City Public Schools to plead with parents to immunize their children.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

For a moment it crossed her mind that if she humiliated herself to him, knelt down on her stiff old knees to plead for mercy, he might be soothed.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

“Please take me seriously,” pleads Polly Wyeth, the matriarch played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in “Other Desert Cities,” Jon Robin Baitz’s thorny comedy-drama being revived in high style on Broadway this fall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Alejandro Tellez’s contribution came with the punchy “Linda Sonrisa,” that pleads for someone to realize the realities of the mistreatment they’re facing with another lover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

"Can you bear to do one more of those, ladies and gentlemen," pleads Dunkley, "while there's still blood left in your top lips?"

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

In 2017, he played opposite Hugh Jackman in “Logan” as a doctor who pleads with Wolverine to heal up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

My mother pleads with the guards as I try to wriggle my way out.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Joseph Strange, a 48-year-old Michigan resident, pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement and will be sentenced to prison in January, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Former Conservative MP Craig Williams, who was Sunak's closest parliamentary aide at the time, pleaded guilty in June and will be sentenced at a later date.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Rinderknecht, 30, who has remained in federal custody since the June mistrial, has pleaded not guilty to the revised charges against him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Brand denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

“But he’ll cry himself sick,” pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

For example, Jason Galanis, who pled guilty to defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation, had paid just over $2 million of his $80 million restitution before his sentence was commuted and the restitution erased in 2025.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

In August 2024 he rejected a motion to dismiss a private suit against Harvard, writing, “the facts as pled show that Harvard failed its Jewish students.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

And, speaking to broadcaster Iain Dale at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the ex-SNP leader said she was still learning what Murrell had done on the day he pled guilty.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

I think she would have pled with him not to steal the souls of those who would take his place.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Hamilton’s campaign built an ad around Meischa Zimmerman, who says she was arrested while eight months pregnant after missing a $50 payment, and found herself pleading not to be handcuffed in front of her two-year-old.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

After pleading no contest, he was sentenced to probation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Cornell’s current president, Michael Kotlikoff, is pleading to keep his job amid faculty unrest over the scandal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Despite his pleading, the Yankees declined to put Judge on their playoff roster, not convinced he was healthy enough to contribute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He looks up at me, raising both hands so I can see his empty palms, pleading.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse