pleaded

verb

variants or pled also plead
past tense of plead
as in argued
to state (something) as a reason in support of or against something under consideration can I plead temporary insanity for having made that foolish decision?

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Recent Examples of pleaded Three other co-defendants, Alex Arreola, Ricardo Charles and Alexavier Victor Rodriguez, pleaded no contest in March to gang participation and gang conspiracy charges, after they were initially charged with, then cleared of, murder charges. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2026 Months later, the man pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor identity theft and was released from custody, time served. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 Clancy, who has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder, could face life in prison if convicted. — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026 Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Margaret Garnett that their client was prepared to plead guilty to the two stalking counts against him in the federal indictment. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026 Acton went after Ramaswamy after a previous family bodyguard pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges on Thursday. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2026 Nor did Mangione plead guilty to avoid a potential death sentence. — Alanna Durkin Richer, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026 In January, his former UC Davis assistant pleaded no contest to a felony charge of misappropriating public money. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 8 Aug. 2026 Marodi had initially pleaded not guilty to Rebecca’s murder before changing her plea to guilty to second-degree murder. — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleaded
  1. argued
  2. reasoned
  3. contended
  4. insisted
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  • Yet Jeanie’s attorney, Adam Streisand of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton Law, argued in the letter sent to her siblings’ attorneys that two previous legal rulings render that strategy improper.
    — Sam Amick, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The bank argued that combination may prove difficult to sustain.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of argued
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  • At the time, 1587 Sneakers reasoned that the football stars often take part in national advertising campaigns, making New York a fitting place to file.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • At one point, an agent reasoned that helping the wider group could prove useful later, even when that work did not solve its immediate assignment.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of reasoned
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  • The year 1933, Arendt contended, marked the close of the age of bourgeois emancipation and Jewish liberation, which brought an end to a feeling of security in the West and signaled that the new sense of security in the East was a pipe dream.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The union’s original grievance, the city contended, only challenged Biscari’s suspension pending resolution of his criminal case — not the underlying disciplinary action for the crash itself.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of contended
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  • Everything is squared away now, Price insisted, and there should be no further delays.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Asked to comment about its international isolation, Farahi insisted the Taliban government was engaged with some 40 countries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of insisted

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