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Friedman Agnifilo told the judge: "Mr Mangione is prepared to plead guilty at this time."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

After all, El-Sayed recently had to plead with his backers not to take personal shots at Stevens and her accent online.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

He did not indicate whether he intended to plead guilty or not guilty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

His decision to plead the Fifth, according to people familiar with his legal strategy, was designed in part to avoid what his legal team believed was a perjury trap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

His eyes plead with me to understand, but I recognize his tone—it’s the one he employed when we were younger, to scold me.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

"How could I know you and not have a clue?" she pleads.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Awash in the sounds of rain, she pleads with a lover to abandon her, as she does not feel strong enough to make that choice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

She pleads desperately: "We are waiting for humanitarian aid - we need them to come to help us."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Rise up!” the chorus pleads, and demands, and hopes for.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

"So, tell us about this cute guy at the nursery," Fifi pleads.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

They’ve pleaded not guilty, with the mother saying in an interview with investigators that she thought having a green card meant she could vote.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

While the federal charges he pleaded guilty to carry up to life in prison, the judge could sentence him to less time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Survivors said they had pleaded for the captain to turn back as the boat took on water.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

Reiner pleaded not guilty in February to initial charges brought in the case.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Dr. Han pleaded with them to at least release Sunjin, since he was so young.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

A grandfather in his seventies, Al-Marimi has been in American custody since 2022 and has pled not guilty to charges of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Nicholson pled guilty last month to breaching the order.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

“Mr. Zambada has not entered into any cooperation agreement, has not pled pursuant to any cooperation arrangement, and is not cooperating with the United States government in any capacity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

They pled with the few who still loaded sideboards and escritoires into tenders.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

LA Jazz Festival was a major project for Ludlow, a former Los Angeles City Council member turned music promoter and community activist after pleading guilty to misappropriating funds in 2006.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

She called him a few hours later, pleading to give her son another chance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

A French teenager was fined in Singapore Thursday after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge for a straw-licking stunt that landed him in hot water in the city state.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Nidal al-Arir wails on the ground, pleading for his son, who needs a corneal transplant.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Behind them Jam could hear Hibiscus’s voice, ragged and pleading, saying how he would tell them everything, everything, if they could just please make sure it didn’t come back for him.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi