Example Sentences
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What’s next: Pleaded not guilty to all counts.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2022
Pleaded guilty to conspiring against the US and lying to the FBI and admitted helping Manafort doctor financial statements, hide sources of foreign income, mislead banks to get loans and cheat on his US taxes.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2019
Conviction: Pleaded guilty to federal charges of tax fraud and making false statements stemming from renovation work on his Bronx home that was paid for by a shady construction firm in New Jersey.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2016
Pleaded guilty to leading the Watergate breakin; released pending appeal after serving ten months of a 2�-to-eight-year sentence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I stood against it, Pleaded and reasoned, but to no account.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas