as in appeal
an earnest request with arms raised in humble suppliance, the priest asked for blessings from above

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Noun
  • The mass appeal from those cost savings helped catapult them from companies no one had heard of to being wildly popular and among the fastest growing online retailers.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 2 May 2025
  • Otto Preminger’s 1958 adaptation, pairing the then-scandalous story with a luminous Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven — plus an experimental use of both Technicolor and monochrome — only burnished its appeal, inspiring the French New Wave to boot.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • More than five years ago, Francis stood in the very same square in the evening, to issue a prayer amid the worsening COVID pandemic.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Many waited hours for a chance to walk under the church’s vaulted ceilings and say a prayer for the pontiff.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Federal prosecutors also appeared to reveal today that Combs had rejected an apparent plea deal.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • As per the documents, judge Sarah Willis ruled on the plea bargain deal Wednesday.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The child was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on January 4, 2023, the petition says.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But the court continues to sit on petitions challenging Rhode Island’s high-capacity magazine ban and Maryland’s semiautomatic weapon ban. SIDEBAR The saga of Trump’s hush money criminal case isn’t over yet.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Suppliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suppliance. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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