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UN human rights chief Volker Turk called for urgent action to remedy the plight of thousands of seafarers caught up in the Middle East war, his spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

CK has also set up accounts on platforms like Reddit and X to share the animals' plight.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Berman told me he’s sympathetic to the plight of Clough and others, and he’s open to further discussion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

Devoted to the first national congress of the Chinese Communist Party, inside the museum’s quiet, low-lying stone building all is frugality and concern for the plight of the downtrodden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Their plight is not what we hear about on the evening news, however.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

But they also meticulously track the chimps' friendships and social plights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

The intended effect is that we’re witnessing the plights of what might as well be actual people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

I have no doubt that Lamb worked hard to faithfully reflect what he’s gleaned about prison life, and has great sympathy for his character’s plights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Also of note, he said, is that these detained travelers' plights stems from their entering the country with visa waivers rather than tourist visas.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

If we were truly going to emulate the Freedom Riders, then our writing must transcend the walls of Room 203 and our individual plights and become a universal message.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2017

Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2017

In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Added a Filipino columnist: "Formosa has come to mean to the free peoples of Asia one thing: the worth of America's plighted word to little nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Yet plighting his troth to the party may have worried him more than he allowed.

From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010

Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He doesn't help his case by plighting his troth at every opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the Asian giants were plighting their renewed affections, top Soviet officials continued their efforts to repair the 25-year-old schism between Moscow and Beijing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clasp was not that of a plighting.

From A Fountain Sealed by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas