plead
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After more than a year-and-a-half of intense spectacle and legal wrangling, Luigi Mangione appeared in a federal courtroom in New York on Friday as rumours swirled that he may plead guilty.
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
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
Jackson said the officer will fight the charge and plead not guilty, and that the law only applies where the speakers have a reasonable expectation that what they say would not be overheard or recorded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
I plead with my mom about the rule, but she refuses to budge.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
Despite social media evidence to the contrary, Painter pleads he is "not always the culprit" when it comes to the pouring of ice buckets.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
In 2017, he played opposite Hugh Jackman in “Logan” as a doctor who pleads with Wolverine to heal up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
It’s just days before the wedding, and as the caterer gently pleads, a “yes” has to be absolutely final this time around.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
In it, Savannah Guthrie pleads for the public to help locate her missing mother.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
“I didn’t want to take you here, but I had to. I had to. It was the only way to make you understand,” she pleads as she sways back and forth.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
After an emotional 11-week trial, judge Matthew Nicklin sided with the publisher in a ruling handed down on July 7, concluding the "claimants failed to prove their pleaded allegations".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Xu pleaded guilty in April to charges that also included embezzlement and bribery, the court said at the time.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Hui had pleaded guilty to the charges during a trial in the Shenzhen court, Xinhua reported in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
He pleaded guilty to entering the UK without valid entry clearance, but not guilty to seeking to obtain leave to enter or remain by deceptive means.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Alter,” Mrs. Brenner pleaded from the other side of the door.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
In August 2024 he rejected a motion to dismiss a private suit against Harvard, writing, “the facts as pled show that Harvard failed its Jewish students.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Sturgeon said: "He was still lying to me right up until the day he pled guilty."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
Sturgeon told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: "I reject completely the notion that people were trying to alert the party to the kind of behaviour that Peter pled guilty to on Monday."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
“Yes, you did,” he said, when I pled my ignorance.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Two years ago, in Buffalo, I gathered alongside a sizable crowd in a public park, all of us audibly pleading with nature as the eclipse arrived only to be muted by cloud cover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But his promotion was accelerated when Charlie was sent to prison in Alabama in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign contributions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The leader of Spain's north African territory of Ceuta on Wednesday said the number of children left there after last week's irregular migrant rush was "unsustainable", pleading for government aid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Presumably most of the senators were aware that protocol requires a witness pleading the Fifth to plead it to all questions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
If I didn't know any better, I'd have said she was almost pleading.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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