plight

Devoted to the first national congress of the Chinese Communist Party, inside the museum’s quiet, low-lying stone building all is frugality and concern for the plight of the downtrodden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

The exhibition also features a silent film titled “The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra,” a 1928 short highlighting the plight of a background actor known as “9413.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

"The narrative goes a bit more blaming the refugees," said Rudiger, who believes empathy for the plight of those escaping conflict has diminished.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

How can one not be sensitive to their plight?

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner