plead

"I plead for mercy for the wrongs committed by my son. Please forgive him and send him back to us."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

I’m no expert, but I don’t think their mating rituals involve using the New York Times to plead their case or, when that doesn’t work, threatening to move en masse to Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

On “To Catch a Predator,” there is no differentiation between the levels of danger the men pose; no mercy for those who understand they’re sick and desperately plead for rehabilitation.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

ADM went on to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices and set sales volumes on two products it sold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

They hope it will get them off the hook, or at least allow them to plead guilty to a lesser charge, should a critic ever try to prove them wrong.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Despite social media evidence to the contrary, Painter pleads he is "not always the culprit" when it comes to the pouring of ice buckets.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Alejandro Tellez’s contribution came with the punchy “Linda Sonrisa,” that pleads for someone to realize the realities of the mistreatment they’re facing with another lover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Times goes with "Burnham pleads for ten years to 'rewire' Britain".

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

“Rise up!” the chorus pleads, and demands, and hopes for.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

“Tell me a story about when you were little,” Ruby pleads.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

They have pleaded not guilty and denied the accusations through their attorneys, who declined to comment on the new allegations leveled in court Friday by prosecutors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Asked by the judge how he pleaded to the indictment against him, the 63-year-old responded, "I reject this document in its entirety."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The crux of his case was that prosecutors misinterpreted the law so he pleaded guilty to a crime that didn’t exist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Pulido's arrest comes just two months after Alex Saab, another Colombian businessman with close ties to the Venezuelan government, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in a US court.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

I pleaded, but Rostam had become a donkey of Divine Providence—a wise ass of the first order.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

For example, Jason Galanis, who pled guilty to defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation, had paid just over $2 million of his $80 million restitution before his sentence was commuted and the restitution erased in 2025.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

In August 2024 he rejected a motion to dismiss a private suit against Harvard, writing, “the facts as pled show that Harvard failed its Jewish students.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

And, speaking to broadcaster Iain Dale at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the ex-SNP leader said she was still learning what Murrell had done on the day he pled guilty.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Although our father pled on thy behalf, thy uncle could not be moved.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

Cornell’s current president, Michael Kotlikoff, is pleading to keep his job amid faculty unrest over the scandal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

In September, Sanchez agreed to enter a guilty plea in the criminal case, although it is unclear to which charges Sanchez will be pleading guilty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Jemal Abdela, 32, was sentenced after pleading guilty to the offence of endangering others during a sea crossing to the UK without valid entry clearance on July 25.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then she saw the video of him pleading with the police when they first accused him of the break-in.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sunjin’s mom began crying, pleading for them to at least save her son.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh