appealed

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Cities appealed to developers to pretty-please include some decent parkland in their subdivisions, but the elected ones for the most part didn’t have the will to use official muscle to insist on it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Chen appealed his sentence and it was later cut to 16 years.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

The association appealed the ruling but, on Feb. 12, withdrew the appeal without explanation.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

In transforming the nocturne into “an evocation of the restful character of evening,” Field endowed it with an intimate tone that appealed to Romantic sensibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

“Professor Flitwick says the diadem vanished with Ravenclaw herself. People have looked, but,” she appealed to her fellow Ravenclaws, “nobody’s ever found a trace of it, have they?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling