plead
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The DOJ presented Abrego Garcia with a plea deal last week: Plead guilty to the human smuggling charge, and after serving time in jail, eventually be removed to Costa Rica—a generally safe, Spanish-speaking country.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2025
He also co-founded Plead the 8th, a nonprofit working to end the incarceration of children in Florida’s adult system.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2024
He said, “Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021
Because once in jail, people are faced with a terrible choice: Plead guilty and go home saddled with a criminal record, or maintain innocence and remain in jail.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2015
Plead with King Ailmar that he dub me knight, That I may prove me worthy of thy love.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)
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