Plea and Use

Plea

Plea noun - An earnest request.

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Use and plea are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a noun "Plea".

Nearby Word: pleading

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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Plea and use are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Plea" instead a noun "Use".

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

similar	similar plea	similar use
public	public plea	public use
proper	proper plea	proper use
blatant	blatant plea	blatant use
Other adjectives: actual, successful, personal, new, repeated, general, military, occasional.

In one Law and Order episode, Jack McCoy has his new ADA use a friend from Federal Prosecution as a threat to get a criminal to plea out in the lesser State Court.

Source: Persona Non Grata
In another episode, McCoy tries to use the fact that former ADA Jamie Ross called in an anonymous tip to exonerate one of her clients on death row to force her to plea bargain in another case.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Live-Action TV
Soon the tanuki are forced to use their legendary powers of illusion in an increasingly desperate struggle to protect their forests, even going so far as to reveal their fantastical existence in a final plea for the environment.

Source: Ghibli Hills

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