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imploring

adjective as in appealing

adjective as in begging

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Weak matches

noun as in urging

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Example Sentences

A harrowing 911 call, obtained by local newspaper La Nacion, reveals staff imploring the operator to “send someone urgently”.

From BBC

"I thought 'I can't put my family though it any longer'... they were imploring me to leave."

From BBC

To that end, Mason sent a letter to voters in July imploring them to put in the work of listening to eligible recordings and judging them “with pride and with purpose.”

The escalation comes even as U.S. officials crisscross the region imploring leaders to avoid inflaming tensions — a plea evidently ignored.

Acknowledging progress, the actor, who took out an ad in the New York Times imploring the Academy to bring more Latinos into the industry, noted that “it turns out not complaining doesn’t change anything. What I see here tonight makes me almost happy and certainly less angry.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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