as in to petition
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
she begged her husband to give up extreme skiing
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Recent Examples of beg
When a deputy later walked by during a safety check, Lines unsuccessfully begged him to stop.
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Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
His parents also pleaded with him to drop the weapon while begging the cops not to shoot their son.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026
During that time, students trapped inside called 911 and begged for help, investigators found.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 6 Jan. 2026
Barnes’ relative deficiencies beg more for a half-court maestro than Johnson’s.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
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Meta and TikTok have petitioned to have the suit dropped; the courts have thrown these petitions out.—
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In September 2017, Singer petitioned the clerk of Palm Beach County to legally change his name to Hunter Barrett Scott.—
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Join our live chats or ask a question in advance.—
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Police added that Lattimore was arrested for not telling the officer there was a gun inside the vehicle when asked.—
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Join me in praying for the victims of such senseless violence and all the families of this church.—
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But the loss effectively knocked Miami out of the ACC title game, and forced them having to hope and pray for an at-large bid to the playoff.—
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Maya Jama has joined other women in imploring Elon Musk‘s AI platform to respect their privacy after a deepfake nudes scandal has caused outrage.—
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The Padres, early on, implored the mayor and City Council to remove Petco Park from the tourism wage mandate, arguing that the team is already subject to the city’s living wage ordinance, which imposes a higher wage floor than the citywide minimum wage.—
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In September, Brazilian business leaders beseeched the Brazilian Academy of Cinema to nominate Marianna Brennand’s Manas as the country’s representative for the 98th Oscars over The Secret Agent.—
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President Donald Trump beseeched Republican senators to end the filibuster on Wednesday, hot on the heels of significant losses in Tuesday night’s 2025 elections.—
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“Beg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beg. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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