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praying

verb as in plead; call upon for help, answer

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One dives deep into the strained but anatomically accurate neck muscles and sharply delineated collar bones of St. Jerome, shown praying in the bleak wilderness.

In September, there was uproar over a viral video that showed him praying at home with PM Modi during a Hindu religious festival.

From BBC

She expressed relief at having one remaining photo: “I’m just praying that things happen for a reason, and I got really lucky on some stuff.”

“Women have had people screaming ‘murderer’ or shouting out ‘mummy’ and saying that they’re going to be praying for them and that is a really harrowing experience,” she tells me.

From BBC

“We’re really praying that he makes it,” Sheriff Robert Luna said in a press conference later Tuesday morning.

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

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