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It is a verb which means to make a serious, earnest, or urgent request or appeal. For example: "John pleaded with his boss to let him take the day off."
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pleads
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Third person singular of plead
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Related: White House fence jumper pleads guilty in incident that shook up secret service Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, said he was unsure about the price tag for the prospective fake White House.
Hopcraft was scathing about "that piece of nonsense trotted out mindlessly by the fearful every now and again which pleads: 'After all, it's only a game.' It had not been 'only a game' for 80 years; not since the working classes saw in it an escape route out of drudgery and claimed it as their own".
Although branding Giggs as "thug rap" just media-boxes him in as stereotypical troublemaker aggressively glamorising violence, pragmatic Giggs pleads guilty.
As George Mottershead continues to pursue his dream of opening a zoo, an ailing gypsy pleads with the haunted war veteran to take over the care of Bolero, his faithful dancing bear.
A shopkeeper pleads with robbers to take everything he has but spare his life; they shoot him anyway.
And it's about Hanoi!" The country's two main regions are proud, and parochial partisans have it out at length on YouTube and elswhere, while a small minority pleads for everyone to remember they are all Vietnamese first and foremost.
But his former planning adviser, Juan Antonio Roca, is at the centre of the new scandal.Like all those arrested, Mr Roca pleads his innocence.
The letter pleads for measures to promote growth.
"I'M ONLY here to help," pleads Mario Resca.
The president often pleads with the young, disillusioned with the slow pace of reform, to show stamina to help take the country through its difficult transition to democracy.
When Khalid, the play's lone peacemaker, pleads with his brothers: "I want a solution.
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