pray

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Recent Examples of pray Thousands march across the bridge to light candles and pray. Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025 Please join me in praying for the victims of this terrible tragedy. Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025 Also making a fall transformation – the Dodgers hope and pray – is the bullpen. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025 Keller school board members sparred Wednesday night before approving a resolution calling on the district to provide an opportunity during the school day for students and staff to pray and read the Bible or other religious texts. Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pray
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Verb
  • Guerrero kept waving, begging for a challenge to erase the mistake.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a throwback to the warts-and-all silliness of the family’s legendary MTV reality show, The Osbournes, Coming Home appears to lean into the domestic comedy of the Osbourne clan, opening with a jittery Ozzy begging Sharon to stop driving in a herky-jerky manner.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Last week, a group of Kirk supporters petitioned Starbucks to honor him by adding his signature tea order to menus nationwide.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • With six women in upstate New York who, in 1846, two years before Seneca Falls…petitioned their state constitutional convention for the right to vote.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Pray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pray. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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