cadged

verb

Definition of cadgednext
past tense of cadge
as in requested
to persuade someone to give you (something) for free He spent his time trying to cadge drinks from the customers. She cadged money from her sister.

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadged
  1. requested
  2. begged
  3. asked
  4. demanded
  5. required
  6. conjured
Verb
  • Earlier this year, Lake publicly appealed to Meghan McCain as a fellow Mama Bear and requested a meeting.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Hotel Properties—which owns hotels including the Four Seasons in Singapore as well as office buildings and shopping malls—requested a share-trading suspension on Friday before the charges against Ong were read in court.
    Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of requested
Verb
  • The family has begged the public to alert authorities to anyone matching the dancer’s description.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
  • This find begged many questions for researchers about the sophistication of these ancient species.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of begged
Verb
  • Adding to the political theater, the Santa Cruz County prosecutors, who took on the case due to a conflict of interest in the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, asked a judge to dismiss the charges last month.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Jettly, a private jet rental company, surveyed 1,000 Americans and asked them about their trust in commercial and private pilots.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of asked
Verb
  • Meanwhile, some members of the public feared riding by themselves in the newfangled contraptions and demanded operators.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) demanded a 77 percent wage increase over six years and a complete ban on automation at ports on the East and Gulf Coasts in its negotiations for a new labor contract.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of demanded
Verb
  • The rise of the transfer portal and the demise of long-standing rules that required intraconference transfers to sit out two years made Johnson’s move possible.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Moreover, barriers to new entrants in the business are quite high given the scale required to operate.
    GuruFocus, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of required
Verb
  • Helene conjured rains in the area days before the massive cyclone arrived in the state, and merged with other storm systems, which resulted in even more rain.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The image was not something the AI platform conjured from a simple prompt, though.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of conjured
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