conjured

verb

past tense of conjure
as in begged
to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner I conjure you to hear my plea for mercy

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Recent Examples of conjured The news was shared to social media with an image that conjured up the franchise’s world. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2026 That's the sort of movie magic Quentin Tarantino conjured in this LA gangland game-changer. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Over decades, Putin has conjured the image of an unflappable, precise policy master. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 After Bondi, whatever sense of sanctuary that fact conjured was shattered. — Oscar Schwartz, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 The glossy, high-contrast butterfly design on this set feels like something the brilliant mind of Donatella Versace conjured up. — Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 26 June 2026 By 1962, Jaray was making hard-edge abstract paintings that conjured architectural structures or details; delineated with masking tape and executed without visible brush strokes, they were carefully plotted out through multiple preliminary drawings, and in later years, on a computer. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026 Surely there were those in attendance, and those watching, who conjured horrible thoughts of Patriots receiver Darryl Stingley being left permanently paralyzed from the chest down after taking a vicious hit from the Oakland Raiders’ Jack Tatum during a 1978 preseason game. — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 23 June 2026 The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure. — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjured
  1. begged
  2. petitioned
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  • Yet, the same people who begged for this opportunity for years suddenly want to police the moment.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Up to this point, Ruthye has begged Supergirl to help her exact revenge on Krem, which the heroine has refused, so the alignment of their goals ends up a convenient happenstance.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of begged
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  • With seemingly nowhere left to turn, Apple petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene in a last-ditch attempt to keep fees at an acceptable rate.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
  • With an $800 daily fine soon going into effect over her 2024 civil contempt ruling, Fox News alum Catherine Herridge‘s legal team has petitioned for a stay after she was ordered to reveal her sources for her 2017 stories about Yanping Chen.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 June 2026
Definition of petitioned

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