as in begs
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
I conjure you to hear my plea for mercy
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Recent Examples of conjures
Actors speak and react to Rajab’s own desperate voice, while the film, set wholly within the Red Crescent’s beigely neutral offices, conjures a fraught ticking-clock atmosphere as precious minutes of inaction pass by.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Those are some of the more familiar titles from the towering stack of September 2025 poetry, so read on for a few surprises, including superheroes, mystics and martyrs, along with an overdue Selected Poems and a debut that conjures a boi Cain and her sister Abel.
—Rebecca Morgan Frank
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Step once more into Tim Burton's macabre universe as a grown-up Lydia Deetz (Ryder) who desperately conjures up Beetlejuice to help save her daughter, Astrid (Ortega), from the Afterlife.
—Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The company conjures weathered ranch homes, hand tools and arts and crafts when describing the color.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Seeing that marmot offshoot with his twitchy little nose and beady eyes, clutched by an obscure local bureaucrat, conjures hope for the year to come.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
As for the dirt in the ink, which conjures up images of Dickinson with a trowel in the graveyard at night, lightning cracking overhead as rain pours down?
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
But Oyeyemi, unlike her fatalist predecessors, conjures alternate realities.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The bright green appearance conjures images of everyone’s favorite acid-tone wicked witch.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Those are some of the more familiar titles from the towering stack of September 2025 poetry, so read on for a few surprises, including superheroes, mystics and martyrs, along with an overdue Selected Poems and a debut that conjures a boi Cain and her sister Abel.
—Rebecca Morgan Frank
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Step once more into Tim Burton's macabre universe as a grown-up Lydia Deetz (Ryder) who desperately conjures up Beetlejuice to help save her daughter, Astrid (Ortega), from the Afterlife.
—Charlotte Walsh, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
The company conjures weathered ranch homes, hand tools and arts and crafts when describing the color.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Seeing that marmot offshoot with his twitchy little nose and beady eyes, clutched by an obscure local bureaucrat, conjures hope for the year to come.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
As for the dirt in the ink, which conjures up images of Dickinson with a trowel in the graveyard at night, lightning cracking overhead as rain pours down?
—Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 19 Aug. 2025
But Oyeyemi, unlike her fatalist predecessors, conjures alternate realities.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
The bright green appearance conjures images of everyone’s favorite acid-tone wicked witch.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjures
begs
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This begs the question of who the agencies believe will step in to pony up $18 billion in new capital to fund the ongoing operations of the 100 gw of coal plants Sec.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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One fateful night, while lamenting her responsibilities, Sarah begs the Goblin King to take her brother away.—
Logan Karlie
September 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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