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Six unsuccessful eviction attempts followed as Abascal spoke publicly of her plight and in defense of other vulnerable tenants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see the plight of island nations surrounded by a rising ocean.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Now that their horrific plight coincides with Abraham and Szor’s second documentary, that goal stands to become a reality.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

All four women who have spoken to us they believe their plight was not taken seriously by police.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

I conferred with my mother about my plight, and as always she had an encouraging word.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Sebastian’s reporting has shed light on the power of large tech companies, how advanced technologies are shaping our future and the plights of everyday people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

But they also meticulously track the chimps' friendships and social plights.

From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026

I have no doubt that Lamb worked hard to faithfully reflect what he’s gleaned about prison life, and has great sympathy for his character’s plights.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

Also of note, he said, is that these detained travelers' plights stems from their entering the country with visa waivers rather than tourist visas.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025

If we were truly going to emulate the Freedom Riders, then our writing must transcend the walls of Room 203 and our individual plights and become a universal message.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

William Shakespeare wrote in "King Lear" that "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides. Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2017

Well, in the words of Cordelia, “Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides.”

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2017

A troth was plighted in your name To meet my just but modest claim.

From Time Magazine Archive

Added a Filipino columnist: "Formosa has come to mean to the free peoples of Asia one thing: the worth of America's plighted word to little nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he concluded, “But I flatter myself that some respect will be paid to the public interest, and to the plighted faith of the government.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Yet plighting his troth to the party may have worried him more than he allowed.

From The Guardian ● May 7, 2010

Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth.

From Time Magazine Archive

He doesn't help his case by plighting his troth at every opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the Asian giants were plighting their renewed affections, top Soviet officials continued their efforts to repair the 25-year-old schism between Moscow and Beijing.

From Time Magazine Archive

If true the hope thou hast to me revealed, If true the plighting of a sacred troth, Let the wall fall that stands between us both, For griefs are doubled when they are concealed.

From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman