as in petitions
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 begs
Those expectations were too high as the NDRC doesn’t have the ability to announce the fiscal stimulus bazooka, which kind of begs the question, why host it?
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Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
So this begs the question of, who was this blush made for?
—Lyric Christian, Essence, 7 Oct. 2024
Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
So this begs the question of, who was this blush made for?
—Lyric Christian, Essence, 7 Oct. 2024
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“Begs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/begs. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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