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Recent Examples on the Web
Within the scene, a standing figure entreats a seated woman, who is Black and wears a dress and head wrap.
—Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
After receiving a troubling diagnosis and failing to navigate his company’s byzantine insurance plans, Winston entreats his mega-rich boss for help, only to be cruelly rebuffed.
—Michael Nordine, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
It was suspended by an extra-strong polyethylene rope and grappling hook over a rectangular hole in the dock, below an awning where bright-red letters cut from PVC board entreated: go deeper.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Before long, rival warlords would entreat the warrior monks to help in their skirmishes.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 June 2023
Sarastro’s Masonic minions gather around a conference table in generic gray suits, Tamino heads off in pursuit of virtue wearing a white shirt and black pants, and Pamina does a lot of entreating in a frumpy white dress.
—Vulture, 23 May 2023
In her comments, Arnold entreated industry leaders to hire outside their usual crew.
—Hannah Abraham, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
The coronavirus pandemic sparked a 50% increase in online prayer searches last March — to cope with feelings of anxiety and hopelessness, and to entreat a higher power to end the pandemic, according to a May report from the Center for Economic Policy Research, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
—Selene Rivera, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
Kimmel entreated viewers to vote Trump out of office in November, but also went further, attempting to grapple with the larger issues of racial injustice at play.
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 30 May 2020
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