beseechingly

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Or, as Rep. Stacey Plaskett put it, simply, beseechingly, on Wednesday, “This happened.”

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2021

Then she lifted her thin, blue-veined hands and clasped them beseechingly.

From Time • Oct. 14, 2016

“John,” Cruz says, beseechingly, “this party is really just for people who have a path forward at the convention.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2016

At the end of each song, she held her arms out beseechingly, like a child making angels in the snow.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2013

Her eyes, wild and powerful, fixed themselves beseechingly on him, as if praying to him to make it true.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick