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
Under Porra’s direction and through Sebastián Cabrera’s painterly cinematography, the film conjures a vivid and haunting portrait of the colonial Caribbean.
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Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
His arrival on the report obviously conjures up nightmares for the 49ers from a year ago, when he was surprisingly scratched from their season opener and missed two months with Achilles tendinitis.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 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
Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
His arrival on the report obviously conjures up nightmares for the 49ers from a year ago, when he was surprisingly scratched from their season opener and missed two months with Achilles tendinitis.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 5 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjures
begs
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Day begs Dusk to see what Demerzel’s sacrifice meant.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Alternating between Laura and Cherry’s stark perspectives adds to the fun of the series that begs to be binged.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Conjures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjures. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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