Thesaurus results for PLEAS

pleas

noun

plural of plea

as in appeals

an earnest request the captive made an impassioned plea for his life to be spared

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an explanation that frees one from fault or blame my only plea is that I've been overworked lately

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Recent Examples of pleas Through May, prosecutors had charged fewer than four dozen people with crimes related to noncitizen voting, ProPublica’s analysis of DOJ data and federal court filings shows, getting convictions or guilty pleas in 14 cases. — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2026 And in 2020, the Daily News reported that one Bronx gun suspect was acquitted and two others were allowed to withdraw felony guilty pleas after Habib admitted evidence in the case had been tampered with. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 Habib was also accused of lying under oath and tampering with evidence in a 2016 gun raid, prompting several defendants to withdraw their guilty pleas. — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026 Not guilty pleas were entered on Aravind’s behalf on each charge. — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2026 Many communities made disaster declarations, and issued pleas for residents to stay off the roads so cleanup and power restoration could continue unimpeded. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026 Other content contained traditional pleas to small-dollar donors. — Michael Traugott, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026 The couple, who married in 2017 and have four children, were due to be seen before a judge in an Arkansas court on Monday but skipped the hearing after their not guilty pleas were withdrawn and a plea by order to the court was submitted. — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026 Most of the other co-defendants have already taken pleas, including Rusty John Stiglitz, 41, who was a distribution supervisor at the time of the crimes for the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority, the Keys’ fresh water utility. — David Goodhue august 11, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026

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Lower courts had tossed out the last-ditch appeals to save Bruce by concluding the animal rescue lacked a concrete interest in the dog's survival sufficient to challenge the dangerousness finding by local authorities.

— Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
If successful, the appeals could potentially lead to lower costs tied to the jury trial awards.

— Sean Emery, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of appeals

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Kiffin understands that excuses aren’t going to fly, even if some are valid about recruiting during a time when coaches were traveling back and forth from Oxford to Baton Rouge.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
The Galliano incident had nothing to do with Israel or the kinds of excuses some people are using today for antisemitism.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of excuses

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At the center lies carceral safety politics—logics that turn fears of violence into justifications for punitive responses.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
His shows were cancelled for what writers for Ynet and Haaretz considered questionable reasons, among them alleged pressure from Netanyahu’s allies, although the networks involved named other justifications, including financial ones.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of justifications

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The move was so broken that players across the country started online petitions to try and get the EA developers to nerf Judkins' spinning.

— Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Opponents are urging other residents to sign petitions and write letters to the zoning and wetlands commissions, and to attend their hearings to speak against the project.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of petitions

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Someone who bought a Powerball ticket at a Front Range grocery store this week has many, many reasons to celebrate – 500,000 reasons before tax, to be exact.

— Katie Langford, Denver Post, 12 Aug. 2026
Maresca knows that some players need a fresh start for various reasons, which is why James Trafford moved on, despite his close relationship with the Italian from their time together in the under-23s.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026

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