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
This might beg the question of the benefit of interplanting if crops don’t provide their maximum yield, but comparing the nutritional yield of polyculture versus monoculture parcels of land demonstrated that interplanting yielded greater nutritional value per hectare despite the lower crop yields.
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JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
This year, our five-year-old is begging to be a Ghostbuster, so our dogs are getting roped in as the Stay Puft Marshmallow man and the Slimer ghost.
—Trisha Easto, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One house that’s graced the real estate market in Arlington Heights, Illinois, is begging folks to answer that question by taking a peek at its, well, blinding interior.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Shampoo went out to earn money for the family, begging and selling pastries on the beach.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
This year, our five-year-old is begging to be a Ghostbuster, so our dogs are getting roped in as the Stay Puft Marshmallow man and the Slimer ghost.
—Trisha Easto, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
One house that’s graced the real estate market in Arlington Heights, Illinois, is begging folks to answer that question by taking a peek at its, well, blinding interior.
—Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Shampoo went out to earn money for the family, begging and selling pastries on the beach.
—Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beg
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No Azure for Apartheid The group has been asking Microsoft to listen to the more than 1,500 employees who petitioned the company to endorse a ceasefire.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
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As Sportico has covered, the NBA petitioned the Supreme Court in March to review the case.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Murray, in turn, was asked to be a two-way player in ways that were not necessarily originally expected for the young prospect with a deft shooting touch.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Get people to ask hard questions about everything and not to trust anything on its face.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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With further analogues in Scythian, Latvian, and Hittite, many researchers now think that the early Indo-Europeans prayed to a sky father known as something like Dyeus Puhter.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Past disasters have left a painful mark for many, but they’re connected by strong community ties and have come together at vigils to honor and pray for the victims.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Warner implored teammates afterward to summon a next-man-up mentality and have his back.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Despite Reigns imploring them to stay out of the Australian Street Fight, the iconic tag team would come into the ring to offer some support.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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That didn’t mollify Pleasant View neighbors, like Nancy Pate, who attended that August meeting and beseeched the commissioners not to sign off on housing at the Glo Park site.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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One of its products, a stablecoin, owes its value to Binance, whose co-founder Changpeng Zhao is beseeching Trump to pardon him after a money laundering conviction.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Beg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beg. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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