plead

"I just want to plead to the government, with folded hands, to get my son back home."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

To the second crime, Antone will plead an adamant not guilty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

After all, El-Sayed recently had to plead with his backers not to take personal shots at Stevens and her accent online.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Sturgeon also told Dale that she only discovered Murrell was due to plead guilty a week before his first public court appearance.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

I started to cry and plead and call to God to stop me as the lid began to rise.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

"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

“Rise up!” the chorus pleads, and demands, and hopes for.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

“Your honor, I object. This case is not funny!” pleads the prosecutor amid the sweltering hilarity, but few appear to agree with him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

"I'm holding out / Do you love me now? / Do you?" he pleads over an itchy drum pattern on The Waiting Game.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

“My little brother is on—” Ben’s voice pleads.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

A third defendant, lawyer and former lawmaker Albert Ho, pleaded guilty at the start of the 24-day trial in January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court and pleaded not guilty to failing to disclose information regarding terrorist activity.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Hui Ka Yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges, including embezzlement of assets and corporate bribery.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Xu pleaded guilty in April to charges that also included embezzlement and bribery, the court said at the time.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

“I read that just now,” Mr. Wopsle pleaded.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

Lord Harrower said if Patrick had pled not guilty and the case had gone to trial then the sentence would have been 12 years.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Nicholson pled guilty last month to breaching the order.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

At last, he pled, whispering, “Just turn on the grass. Like a child in the morning.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Cohen spent more than a year behind bars after pleading guilty in 2018 to tax and campaign-finance crimes and lying to Congress about Trump’s plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow, among other federal charges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The expected rush has caused trepidation for the authorities, who are pleading for caution amid fears that the heavenly phenomenon will unleash hell on the ground.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Its chief penned a letter on 29 July pleading with those who have remained to leave immediately, saying that Ontario firefighters cannot do their jobs safely with people still in their homes.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

LA Jazz Festival was a major project for Ludlow, a former Los Angeles City Council member turned music promoter and community activist after pleading guilty to misappropriating funds in 2006.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

The withered god looked up at her with pleading eyes.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda