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cadged

verb

past tense of cadge
as in requested
to persuade someone to give you (something) for free He spent his time trying to cadge drinks from the customers. She cadged money from her sister.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadged
  1. requested
  2. begged
  3. coerced
  4. asked
  5. demanded
  6. required
  7. conjured
Verb
  • School District 57 in Mount Prospect requested $20 million and got back just shy of $6 million.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Justice Department had sought no fewer than 80 years in prison, while Alsheikh requested five years, citing his age and his chronic medical conditions.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of requested
Verb
  • Officers tried to move him to another cell, but the other men begged them not to, saying his song and prayer put their minds at ease.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • During a bizarre San Diego break-in, a golden retriever who lives at the home begged the prowler to play.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of begged
Verb
  • Williams also asked Saab whether anyone had threatened or coerced him into changing his plea.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal attorney, was the prosecution’s star witness but has since publicly stated that Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James coerced him into cooperating.
    — Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of coerced
Verb
  • In one of her first meetings, she was asked to look at the designs for a new truck cab and formally approve it.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
  • An indiscriminate cast of men and women, boys and girls, is asked to act out athletic tasks.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of asked
Verb
  • The economy demanded more of students outside the classroom—internships, networking, publications, volunteering.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Tran demanded payment for a cleaning fee and allegedly ordered the women out of the vehicle.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of demanded
Verb
  • For measles, populations need vaccination rates of 95 percent or higher to achieve herd immunity—the level of protection required to prevent disease spread.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Visiting Mompox required AmaWaterways to build a new docking bridge, but other towns are more difficult to access.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of required
Verb
  • Chinese exhibits in Geneva conjured up AI as giant robots guarding futuristic Chinese cityscapes.
    — Elias Stahl, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Certainly, the greatest image of sophistication ever conjured is Raphael’s 1514 portrait, now in the Louvre, of Baldassare Castiglione, who gave the ideal its name.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of conjured
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