plight

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see the plight of island nations surrounded by a rising ocean.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Now that their horrific plight coincides with Abraham and Szor’s second documentary, that goal stands to become a reality.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

On Tuesday, locals filed into the parish hall to vote on whether their village should symbolically declare independence from the U.K., a move they hope will call attention to their plight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

All four women who have spoken to us they believe their plight was not taken seriously by police.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

On the practice field, a trio of men gathered one afternoon to joke about his plight.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Sebastian’s reporting has shed light on the power of large tech companies, how advanced technologies are shaping our future and the plights of everyday people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

But they also meticulously track the chimps' friendships and social plights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

I have no doubt that Lamb worked hard to faithfully reflect what he’s gleaned about prison life, and has great sympathy for his character’s plights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

I have lived in Lubbock, Texas, since 2020, among those labeled such, and can witness firsthand some of their life choices and plights.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

If we were truly going to emulate the Freedom Riders, then our writing must transcend the walls of Room 203 and our individual plights and become a universal message.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2017

Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2017

Added a Filipino columnist: "Formosa has come to mean to the free peoples of Asia one thing: the worth of America's plighted word to little nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

The two plighted their troth in what was destined to become one of the strangest and most durable extracurricular alliances of modern times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Yet plighting his troth to the party may have worried him more than he allowed.

From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010

While the Asian giants were plighting their renewed affections, top Soviet officials continued their efforts to repair the 25-year-old schism between Moscow and Beijing.

From Time Magazine Archive

He doesn't help his case by plighting his troth at every opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georgia's place was by my side, while Elitha, Leanna, and Frances each grouped with husband and children in front among friends, who had come to witness the plighting of vows between my hero and me.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton