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beseechingly



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Or, as Rep. Stacey Plaskett put it, simply, beseechingly, on Wednesday, “This happened.”

From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2021

Then she lifted her thin, blue-veined hands and clasped them beseechingly.

From Time ● Oct. 14, 2016

“John,” Cruz says, beseechingly, “this party is really just for people who have a path forward at the convention.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2016

Mr. Lobukhin, a St. Petersburg dancer who left that city’s Mariinsky Ballet in 2010 to join the Bolshoi, was beautifully made up; he often turned wide eyes beseechingly on both Giselle and the audience.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2014

She turned to the king, beseechingly, but he, too, looked away, his face crumpled with distaste.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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