Thesaurus results for ENTREATIES

entreaties

noun

plural of entreaty

as in pleas

an earnest request our entreaties to give us another few minutes to answer the test questions fell on deaf ears

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Recent Examples of entreaties But Epstein’s entreaties to Keita were not limited to business. —

Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2026 On the demand of the Commons, Suffolk is exiled for his part in Gloucester’s death despite the queen’s entreaties to the king. —

Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026 Other Democrats have been more cautious in their approach to similar entreaties. —

Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 Sununu’s dad served as governor, as did his brother Chris, who refused entreaties to run in the party’s Senate races. —

Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026 This kind of boosterism—no less evident in Bernard Lewis’s highbrow argument in The New Yorker that Muslims fear modernity than in Niall Ferguson’s entreaties for the Bush Administration to resume the British Empire’s task of civilizing the natives—always seemed bafflingly sterile to me. —

Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026 Samsung and Amazon will team up to bring interactive technology from Amazon to Samsung TV Plus, giving users the opportunity to shop from Amazon via their remote control or respond to other entreaties from advertisers. —

Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026 After a while, their entreaties quieted. —

Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 Prosecutors showed that Gray, 55, gave his son the rifle for Christmas and refused entreaties to lock it up as Colt Gray, then 14, showed signs of deteriorating mental health, including bouts of anger and an obsession with school shooters. —

Peter Weber, TheWeek, 4 Mar. 2026

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Court records and prior reporting have described allegations involving other women, though not all allegations resulted in guilty pleas.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
Dominguez entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to charges stemming from the April 26, 2023, stabbing death of Breaux, 50, in Central Park and the April 29, 2023, killing of graduating UC Davis student Abou Najm, 20, along a bicycle path in Sycamore Park.

— Darrell Smith June 8, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2026