please
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“People started dropping their really heavy medical conditions at my feet, going, ‘Oh my God, please, somebody, can you help me?’
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Cregger says it's "probably" impossible to please everyone, but it was never his intention to recreate the game on-screen.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s an idea that simply to get through the day we are playing a role of sorts, tuning our conversations to please others, or presenting exaggerated, false or tidied-up versions of ourselves on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Everyone please give them a hand,” the MC said, as Japanese liquor was passed around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He looked at Mrs. Krupnik and said, "Could I have another helping of chowder, please, Wife?"
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
This isn’t just teenage dramatics: Elephant seals don’t hunt or eat as they molt, so he’s hungry and tired and will sleep wherever he damn pleases.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Hate is a virus that spreads how it pleases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
"The industry won't be successful if the illicit market does as it pleases."
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
“She does what she pleases and that is what upsets,” wrote the feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in an essay on Bardot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
“If it pleases the Queen’s Hand to recall, the Wise Masters hold our Hero too,” said Grey Worm.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
A few kilometres further south, in San Marzano Oliveto, 41-year-old Luca Garberoglio is also pleased with a fine harvest and insists that stocks are "manageable" at the scale of the small Barbera d'Asti area.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"I couldn't be more pleased," says Schraf-Fletcher, who turned to Leigh Casadaban, MD, MS, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, for the treatment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Though Farvardin is pleased with the recognition and that the outside world has caught up with his school’s focus on post-graduate success, he acknowledges that the rankings can be “fickle.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Tampa Bay Rays aren’t particularly pleased, either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Looking very pleased with himself, he smiled and said, “I think I’ve got it figured out. You know you can always figure things out if you use your head a little bit.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
It might also support the whole pleasing vibe producers seem to be going for with this hosting choice.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Herbert and the starting offense, though, made sure they left something pleasing on film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Each scenario asks players to pick one action from three choices on the screen, with each potentially upsetting or pleasing the different factions.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Professional engineers have said Nakagawa's products can be aesthetically pleasing and thought-provoking, but that his system is not practical.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
There wasn’t time to reflect upon the pleasing scene.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
