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"My mum and dad used to bring me here every Saturday morning to do the shopping and I'd always beg to go on the roundabout," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Don’t tell me, don’t tell me!” you beg.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Robert added: "When your child is dying, you shouldn't have to beg to get help that she's entitled to."

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

“We beg you now to return our mother to us, so that we can celebrate with her. This is the only way we will have peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

“Bye, Pooperman,” she says, but she doesn’t cry or hang on my leg or beg me to stay, which hurts a little bit.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

But it begs the question that we all must answer: We all want the same things for our children, but do we all want the same things for each other?

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026

The opposite of a guard dog: Golden retriever begs to play with intruder in San Diego break-in.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Lucas has said that his collection, and by extension his museum, represents “the people’s art,” a term that begs as much argument as “treacle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

McCullum is said to be supportive of players taking responsibility for their behaviour, which begs the question as to why he went along with the curfew in the first place.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I explain this to my own mother every time she begs me to cut off the bracelet, which is now too tight to slip over my hand.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

"I practically begged my dad to take me to a gym and when I was four years old he finally took me."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

For five years, Sister Schubert’s fans asked, begged and eventually petitioned for the return of a frozen food composed of two things: a small smoked sausage and a soft Parker House roll.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

DiMario Thomas Sr., a bar bouncer who witnessed Glenn’s death, said Proctor practically begged him to back his version of events after the shooting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Melanoma patients and their family members who testified at the hearing disagreed and begged the agency to approve the medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

He begged them for mercy and pleaded with them to let him climb on board the canoe.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

“I was begging, crying, arguing, a whole ordeal,” Summer told me Sunday night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s despite the Iran war pushing oil prices above $100 a barrel, a new Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike and artificial-intelligence executives publicly begging their own industry to slow down.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

“People, I would argue, are not even begging to use AI,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

While begging her parents to keep sending her money, Hannah admitted that she thinks of herself as “the voice of my generation. “Or at least a voice.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Finally, I walk over to a bent old man who sits cross-legged on the floor, begging.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman