as in to beg
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner
I pray you: tell me where they went
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Seven hundred Muslims struck while praying at mosques for Ramadan.
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Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
There were also rumors that Kilmer, a lifelong Christian Scientist, was trying to pray the disease away.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
Rescue workers and an activist group say the quake killed several hundred Muslims who were praying during Ramadan, as well as 270 Buddhist monks crushed when a monastery collapsed.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
In Argentina’s capital, a video showed a framed photograph of the pope at a Buenos Aires church on Saturday as worshippers attended a mass to pray for his health.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Pray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pray. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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