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entreaty

noun as in plea

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Despite massive pressure from the White House, including personal visits from Vice President JD Vance, Indiana Republicans are resisting their entreaties to draw new districts.

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He remained in Royal Lodge on the Windsor Estate, despite entreaties by Charles that he move to somewhere less lavish.

Garland regarded the idea of using a million-dollar inheritance to free the world of million-dollar inheritances as hypocritical and resisted Sinclair’s entreaties.

It was a desperate entreaty to U.S. officials to stanch the so-called Iron River, the southbound flow of arms that was fueling record levels of carnage in Mexico.

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Producer Patrick Spence also made an impassioned entreaty: "It's not over. We beg you... get the story out."

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

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