pray
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"Perhaps all I can do is stay beside it and pray."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
As football season kicks off, fans and players alike pray fervently for victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Indeed, the most fundamental American value is freedom: the freedom to think how we want, to pray how we want, to speak freely.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We pray that they don’t give it away,” he said as we leaned over the boat’s side and looked out at the island over the waves.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Asians, Hispanics, whites, and Blacks work, pray, study, and play together and are paid the same salary for doing the same work at the compound.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Semenyo says he prays before games and at the hotel the night before a match alongside team-mates Jeremy Doku and Marc Guehi, which gives them "maximum strength".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
One woman who spoke on condition on anonymity said she quietly prays for a U.S. intervention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
“I don’t have the support of having an outlet for anger, fear and grief,” said Kemper, who journals, prays and keeps a website with updates on her dad.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
He prays to Allah, but is also putting his faith in Israel.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
He worries and prays for her, knowing her leprosy puts her in a dangerous situation.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
They pulled tiny candles from pouches and lighted them, burned incense, dropped coins in the offering box and prayed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
She also prayed in a 17th Century chapel that was positioned directly above the dungeons.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The first Israeli soldiers who came to the site prayed with the settlers – an act for which the Israeli military said they would be disciplined.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
One small group kicked a football near a police van as officers looked on, while others prayed on the sand.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
I prayed so hard, so often, my knees hurt from kneeling.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
“The last 6 weeks of my life have been a nightmare I’m praying to wake up from,” he wrote on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Long Island mother-of-two Linda Mancuso has been "praying on a daily basis" that her disabled son's Haitian caregiver will be able to come back to work.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“There were no other contributing conditions, only exertion-related heat. This is not a coma, and the family is at his bedside praying for a miracle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Recovering a little of his former psyche with them, he starts to think a man like Bangley was praying for something like a pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"Tell your mama I'm praying for her. Matter of fact, I'm praying for all your mamas. Knuckleheads."
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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