pleading
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Cornell’s current president, Michael Kotlikoff, is pleading to keep his job amid faculty unrest over the scandal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In September, Sanchez agreed to enter a guilty plea in the criminal case, although it is unclear to which charges Sanchez will be pleading guilty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Torres-Pena was given a hospital order with no time limit after pleading guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility in 2023.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Then she saw the video of him pleading with the police when they first accused him of the break-in.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“You, Jam, begging for the life of a monster, pleading a plea to the hunter.”
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
He expects to see more pleadings for exemptions from state housing laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
But a spokesperson for Bally Sports ignored my pleadings about whether The International Sportsman had ever aired.
From Slate ● May 29, 2024
“Unless they were verified pleadings, or like a declaration, they are not something that can be used against Trump,” Rahmani said.
From Salon ● May 6, 2024
Osmer, now 27, first began working for the WSP in 2018 in Bellevue and served an unspecified assignment on the governor’s security detail, according to pleadings filed by the state.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
She had had no legal help; because of defects in her pleadings and the allegations she made in her complaint, we could secure only a small settlement judgment for her.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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