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beseeching



ADJECTIVE
pleading
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By day three the flip is gone, “and there is no beseeching the island for more. It is time instead to set about the business of surviving.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Little wonder the local community is beseeching the heavens for rain.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025

We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

Business and union leaders joined in publicly and privately, beseeching him not to go down this idiotic road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

Just a little more beseeching, a few amens, and we’d head home for cold pigeon pie and sour pickles.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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