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Hanna also wants the plight of the many others whose relatives have disappeared over the years to be heard too.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Hudson’s frustration mirrors the plight of many condo owners in America.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The conviction comes two years after Ochoa was charged following a report by The Times that detailed the plight of his alleged victims.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Instead, Musk even offered to elaborate on one complex question, sounding sympathetic to an analyst’s plight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

He had covered a lot of conflicts—including the Iran-Iraq war and the crises in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Congo—and he had followed the plight of refugees in Sudan, Iran, India, and Pakistan.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

The intended effect is that we’re witnessing the plights of what might as well be actual people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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

Also of note, he said, is that these detained travelers' plights stems from their entering the country with visa waivers rather than tourist visas.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

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

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

A troth was plighted in your name To meet my just but modest claim.

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

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

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

They will gather in bands of a score or more, plighting their troth, each sharing with the other the good things which are of the fewest and the ill things that abound.

From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos