begged

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Don’t miss: ‘My parents begged me never to put him in a home’: I have taken care of my disabled brother my entire life.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

"Come and help me! I'm on the front line in Ukraine, I'm fighting for Russia," he begged Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in an anguished voice message sent to his parents.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

As he was dying two years later, in 1898, he came to see the book as “obscene” and begged his publishers, “by all that is holy,” to destroy every copy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

She begged the friend to take care of them for even longer.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Which begged the question: How exactly would he die?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman