as in prayerful
asking humbly
the imploring boy tearfully asked the veterinarian to do what he could to save the life of his dog
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as in pleading
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as in begging
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
the victims of the hurricane implored the governor to put the full resources of the state into the relief effort
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Recent Examples of imploring
Mark Critchley, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
Finally, the surgeon asked, imploring the mother to be honest.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
The fracas has even revived the anti-military sentiment at Google, where a tiny fraction of its employees wrote a letter to the company imploring it to make a similar stand.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Hammock went viral over the summer for his comments imploring athletes to take into account more than just money and attention when transferring.
—Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Carter’s transformation culminated in a postgame message to the team after a win in the season finale imploring everyone to strive for more next year.
—Dan Duggan, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Urging Mother’s Abductors To Contact Them Savannah Guthrie immediately posted the videos and photos on Instagram, imploring the public to pay attention.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2026
The latest round of layoffs had been widely expected for weeks at the Post, with staffers on its White House team writing to Bezos last week imploring him to reverse course.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 4 Feb. 2026
Kansas City Council member Johnathan Duncan posted on social media over the weekend, imploring people to speak out about Newton during the meeting.
—Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
But Old Trafford’s direct imploring of him to stay beyond the end of the current season should leave them in no doubt.
—Mark Critchley, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
The event boiled down to Trump imploring members of Congress to pass the SCORE Act, or legislation based on it.
—ABC News, 6 Mar. 2026
Finally, the surgeon asked, imploring the mother to be honest.
—Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
The fracas has even revived the anti-military sentiment at Google, where a tiny fraction of its employees wrote a letter to the company imploring it to make a similar stand.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Feb. 2026
Hammock went viral over the summer for his comments imploring athletes to take into account more than just money and attention when transferring.
—Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Carter’s transformation culminated in a postgame message to the team after a win in the season finale imploring everyone to strive for more next year.
—Dan Duggan, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
Urging Mother’s Abductors To Contact Them Savannah Guthrie immediately posted the videos and photos on Instagram, imploring the public to pay attention.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2026
The latest round of layoffs had been widely expected for weeks at the Post, with staffers on its White House team writing to Bezos last week imploring him to reverse course.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 4 Feb. 2026
Kansas City Council member Johnathan Duncan posted on social media over the weekend, imploring people to speak out about Newton during the meeting.
—Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imploring
Adjective
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The Sagrada Família was founded as an expiatory church, meaning that it would be financed by prayerful donations from people atoning for their sins.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Pärt’s formulas, born out of long, prayerful periods with sacred texts, offer beauty in the warmth and friction of relationships: melody and tintinnabuli, word and the limits of language, sounds and silence.—
Jeffers Engelhardt,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Often, Ridge to Rivers spends much of the winter pleading with users to avoid trails in particularly clay-heavy locations in an effort to minimize damage.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Mar. 2026
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Hahn’s announcement follows months of fan-casting, pleading and enthusiasm as speculation swirled around her potential involvement in the upcoming film.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Everyone in your family will be begging for seconds.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
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With poor air quality adding to an environment begging for a change, the project will demolish, redirect and streamline traffic connections between Jack London Square, Chinatown and West Alameda over the next three years.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But their discharge petition, introduced last week, is short of the 218 signatures needed to move forward.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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The interior ministry’s own letter confirming the reopening, seen by Semafor, explicitly references Nyamita’s petition as the trigger.—
Joseph Maina,
semafor.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Larionov urged others to join by petitioning the court via email, and the number of plaintiffs swelled to 105.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2026
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About six months ago, my friend Gerry Goldberg and I co-founded the Andie’s Light campaign, petitioning the city councils of Cherry Hills Village and Greenwood Village for a traffic light at Belleview Avenue and Franklin Street.—
Jerry Presley,
Denver Post,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Truist is seeking compensatory damages, an injunction against further soliciting and hiring of its employees, and attorney fees.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Jan. 2026
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Christopher George Santanelli, 42, is being held in the Broward County Main Jail on a charge of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in a romantic relationship with a student, jail records show.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Prayer is a basic practice of almost all religions, and what is prayer if not a beseeching of a synchronicity from God?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Imploring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imploring. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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