pled
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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In August 2024 he rejected a motion to dismiss a private suit against Harvard, writing, “the facts as pled show that Harvard failed its Jewish students.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
And, speaking to broadcaster Iain Dale at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the ex-SNP leader said she was still learning what Murrell had done on the day he pled guilty.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In more recent cases, State Department intelligence analyst Walter Kendall Myers and former US ambassador to Bolivia Victor Manuel Rocha pled guilty in separate cases to spying for the communist country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Defence advocate Sarah Livingstone pled not guilty on his behalf.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I pled with her—knowing not why I pled—“But I am free. I play my violin.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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