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cadges

verb

present tense third-person singular of cadge
as in requests
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 cadges
  1. requests
  2. coerces
  3. begs
  4. asks
  5. entreats
  6. conjures
  7. demands
  8. requires
Verb
  • The motion requests that the hearing be set in November, according to a spokesperson for the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Proton Mail, acting as a proxy, requests the image and caches it on its own servers.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of requests
Verb
  • However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Definition of coerces
Verb
  • His father begs him to stop work, wondering why filming a story about the closure of bakeries in Jabalia for consumption by outlets like the UK’s Channel 4 is worth risking losing his only son.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • But this begs the parallel question of what the current museum architecture arises from and reflects, and why the oceanic and the oligarchic logics of the museum’s reformation now travel together here.
    — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of begs
Verb
  • And no city asks an LLM every few seconds whether a traffic light should turn green.
    — Nitin Gupta, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Neptune retrograde in Aries, for instance, asks us to question everything from our levels of assertion to our individual freedom.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of asks
Verb
  • Huppert entreats her to help locate this potentially deadly ancient tome, and assist in furnishing an all-out vampire gala in the process (replete, again, with dazzling looks).
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Felder entreats us to reject both optimism and cynicism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of entreats
Verb
  • Foam conjures the fragile sturdiness that characterizes both Hesse’s sculpture and Zambreno’s own vacillation between precarity and privilege.
    — Catherine G. Wagley, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • His name conjures both an ingenious canon within British art house cinema and a trailblazing position within gay activist history.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of conjures
Verb
  • In a college football universe that demands increasing buy-in from donors to remain competitive, these are the series that ultimately matter to consumers.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • There is patience in that process, particularly in a fashion cycle that often demands immediate answers.
    — Michael Anthony Hall, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of demands
Verb
  • Controlling those ions requires specialized chips, electronics, lasers, and optical components.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The 25-year-old has all the natural materials an Emery striker requires.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of requires
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