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Chinese users have refused to back down though, with some turning to advocates abroad to air Wang Wang's plight.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Berman told me he’s sympathetic to the plight of Clough and others, and he’s open to further discussion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 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

Speaking of Washington, there are multiple sections of the book devoted to the plight of the enslaved, the marginalized and the indigenous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Their plight is not what we hear about on the evening news, however.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

The juxtaposition serves as a reminder of the timeless plights of teenagerhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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

Albanese raised the plights of Yang and another detained Australian, journalist Cheng Lei, in his first meeting with Xi on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Indonesia a year ago.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

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

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

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

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 Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Lincoln, Abraham