as in requesting
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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However, the situation has changed, as members of the democratic party have been requesting that the republicans remove the portion of the appropriations that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, which controls Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).—
Charles Lloyd Bovaird II,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026 -
The village approved a resolution in December requesting the grocery store receive a Cook County Class 7D property tax incentive from the Cook County Assessor.—
Addison Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Instead of calling and begging somebody else to change.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
21 Jan. 2026
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Nearly two decades into her career, Courtney Marie Andrews remains a troubadour of singular sincerity, more interested in listening to the world than begging the world to listen.—
Lily Goldberg,
Pitchfork,
20 Jan. 2026
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The decision typically comes down to whether the government is coercing the public and specifics about who's involved and the intent.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Investigators accuse him of coercing middle school football players to perform nude exercises in a locker room and secretly photographing them in various stages of undress.—
Amelia Mugavero,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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This might especially be pertinent when asking the client about their current coping strategies.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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But the Washington Post swiftly filed a court motion asking Porter to force the FBI to return the electronics to Natanson.—
Emily Hallas,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Jan. 2026
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Several good ol' boy Texans even drove up to the gate of a military base carrying their hunting rifles demanding to inspect the base for these martial-law troops.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Jan. 2026
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On the same day that the iPhone 16 was released, September 20, 2024, Masengo was detained by the Congolese government for publishing a charter demanding rights for the Katangese people and calling for the mineral wealth of the province to flow back to them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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While the temporary jail facility will not be subject to the city ordinance requiring the standard, the permanent facility that is also planned will be.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
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Governing is a long and laborious process, requiring study, deliberation and the weighing of competing forces.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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On top of that, Nico is also, quite obviously, just mooching off/clinging to Mindy because he got cut off by his family.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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This song from West Coast singer-songwriter Odin Coleman takes a different sonic approach, conjuring centuries-old Appalachian traditions in this banjo broadside.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
9 Jan. 2026
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What hurts most is that there’s no single performance here as challenging and complex as what Florence Pugh was doing in Lady Macbeth or what Thomasin McKenzie delivered in Eileen — performances that demand focus and interpretation, conjuring the inscrutable within the familiar.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Cadging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadging. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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