plea
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“Today’s guilty plea makes clear that harming or harassing our marine wildlife has serious consequences.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mangione entered his plea Friday in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The expected plea potentially resolves the federal case just a month before Mangione is scheduled to go to trial in state court on murder and other charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Oakley was released on bail, with conditions not to contact the alleged victim, or her family, ahead of a plea hearing on 10 September.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The World Spirit had not answered his plea.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Administration officials have so far rebuffed Ford’s pleas on the issue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
But his pleas for personal trust ring hollow.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Over the course of months, investigators made a couple of detentions and conducted a few searches as the Guthrie family made a series of emotional pleas to the kidnappers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
They are legal filings, but they are also declarations or pleas to a judge: The government simply cannot keep this person locked away or trapped in servitude.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
But the Gods have other things to do: they cannot attend to the pleas of every supplicant who dares to raise his cares to heaven.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing plea
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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