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[plee] / pli /




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Earlier this month, a widely circulated post on the Gender Crossroads Substack, “A Plea to My Fellow Trans People,” declared the “honeymoon phase for trans acceptance” to be over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The lawsuit, which was filed in Philadelphia Common Plea Courts, is the first challenge to Musk’s bold undertaking.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024

Plea deals are carefully negotiated between defense lawyers and prosecutors over the course of weeks or months and it’s unusual - especially in high-profile cases - for judges to not sign off on them.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Plea deals are agreements between the government and a defendant and leave the sentencing judge free to ultimately impose whatever sentence he or she believes appropriate within that framework.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2023

It was considered perfectly acceptable until the mid-nineteenth century, when Latin scholars—notably Henry Alford in his book A Plea for the Queens English—misguidedly called it a crime.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner




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