beseech

Business and union leaders joined in publicly and privately, beseeching him not to go down this idiotic road.

The activists, from the Sunrise Movement, were there Sept. 23 to beseech Harris to stop promoting the extraction of fossil fuels.

I also besought Michael Harrison for his insights.

In Trump's infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, he beseeched him to "find" enough votes to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus that would kill her at 39, O’Connor, a lifelong Catholic, beseeches him: “I long for grace,” she cries.