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UN human rights chief Volker Turk called for urgent action to remedy the plight of thousands of seafarers caught up in the Middle East war, his spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

CK has also set up accounts on platforms like Reddit and X to share the animals' plight.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Abernathy’s plight is familiar to many job seekers, especially younger ones who’ve entered the labor force in the past few years.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

But she’s also examining the precarious economic plight of artists similarly pursuing their own alternative paths in the American theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The Boss knew how dire their plight was.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

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

The scenes with Johnny and his buddies are handled in a perfunctory manner that made it hard for me to invest in their plights or paths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

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

The express plighting of faith by each and all of the original thirteen in the Articles of Confederation, two years later, that the Union shall be perpetual is most conclusive.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)