entreaty

There’s also a tangible entreaty for global communities to lean on the networks and relationships they have—with their neighbors, schools, civil organizations, governments, and corporations—and address an issue everyone agrees we should be worried about.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

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

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

The pardon entreaty might have been dismissed out of hand had it not been for its initiator — Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, son and namesake of the slain candidate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

But like nearly every community confronting a third pandemic winter, the entreaty is just that — a plea.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022

The poor man was more loud than ever, and though I could not distinguish a word he said, I could in some way recognise in his tones some passionate entreaty on his part.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Even the entreaties of Islamic scholars and officials of Islamic countries the world over have not bent the iron will of the emir and his enforcers, especially on the most sensitive issue of education.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Comcast chairman and controlling shareholder Brian Roberts had resisted investor entreaties on a spinoff until Monday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Though he advised Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign in 1968, Greenspan resisted entreaties to serve in the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Even when denying Tamora’s entreaties, Mr. Page’s Titus speaks in grave but reasonable tones, without a trace of rancor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

August and I wait outside, listening to passionate entreaties and tongue clicks.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen