as in to petition
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
she begged her husband to give up extreme skiing
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Recent Examples of beg
This begs the question: why are marketers struggling to unlock the full potential of advanced analytics to ignite Growth?
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Stephen Diorio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Frazier then tried to subtly get the answer to the question fans have been begging to know — is Rihanna having a baby girl?
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 June 2025
Within a month, my friends were begging me for more.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Advertisement Which all begs the question: could one F1 teammate crash on purpose to give another an advantage?
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 June 2025
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Stephen Diorio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Frazier then tried to subtly get the answer to the question fans have been begging to know — is Rihanna having a baby girl?
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 June 2025
Within a month, my friends were begging me for more.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
Advertisement Which all begs the question: could one F1 teammate crash on purpose to give another an advantage?
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beg
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Letby's lawyers and three former executives at the hospital unsuccessfully petitioned Thirlwall to halt the public inquiry after the medical panel released its findings.—
BRIAN MELLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
2 July 2025
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Dodd petitioned local churches, the YMCA and shopkeepers to observe Father's Day – a Mother's Day counterpart that would celebrate dads.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The department published a serious note to its Facebook page early Monday after the Free Press asked about it.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
14 July 2025
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You’re asked to enroll your Wi-Fi smart thermostat in a bring-your-own-thermostat program.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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The unsettling noise was followed by a tense hour in the cabin, with many passengers crying, praying or showing signs of distress.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
10 July 2025
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Later outside Al-Aqsa Hospital, men prayed over shrouded bodies and, in a scene now familiar, if no less heartbreaking after 20 months of war, one of them picked up a tiny white bundle to carry the child to the cemetery.—
Aurora Almendral,
NBC news,
10 July 2025
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But the problem persisted enough that, three years later, the head of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives implored the administration’s then-commissioner, Martin O’Malley, to institute further guardrails.—
Andrew Lapin,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2025
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Thier implored the board to vote against the change.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
2 July 2025
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Kent called 911 a second time to inform the police that his son was mentally ill and beseeched them to use less-than-lethal weapons in apprehending him.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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The quiet that followed Heiss’s departure had an almost beseeching quality, like a cat rubbing against Prima’s calves.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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“Beg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beg. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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