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
In early January, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, a concert benefit for Palestine and Sudan conjured all the fury of an acoustic night at the local coffee shop.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Super Bowl week in the Bay Area conjured up memories of Eddie DeBartolo’s enshrinement a decade ago, when Levi’s Stadium last hosted a Super Bowl.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Four of the sculptures, installed in a long line at Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm Biennial in upstate New York in summer 2025, conjured the sliced and schematized representations of bodily locomotion in Étienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographs.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Chelsea needed a goal to sneak into the top eight, and had not conjured a shot on target since his first goal almost 20 minutes earlier.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Or perhaps that is the concern conjured by the hysteria of Y2K—with its fads of fears pumped by a skepticism over technology and wars people could not hold so freshly after the recession of the early 1990s.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
At the very least, the palm tree hairdo — high-volume and imperfect in its entirety — conjured the carefree, fun-loving spirit Porte was after.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
All those great ships, their holds full of human cargo, had been conjured up in an unremarkable spot in present-day Mudchute Park.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Compared to his Mancunian peers, whose output conjured images of decaying industrial plants and mutant discos, this new Durutti Column suggested the domestic.
—Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Super Bowl week in the Bay Area conjured up memories of Eddie DeBartolo’s enshrinement a decade ago, when Levi’s Stadium last hosted a Super Bowl.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Four of the sculptures, installed in a long line at Dan Colen’s Sky High Farm Biennial in upstate New York in summer 2025, conjured the sliced and schematized representations of bodily locomotion in Étienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographs.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Chelsea needed a goal to sneak into the top eight, and had not conjured a shot on target since his first goal almost 20 minutes earlier.
—Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Or perhaps that is the concern conjured by the hysteria of Y2K—with its fads of fears pumped by a skepticism over technology and wars people could not hold so freshly after the recession of the early 1990s.
—Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
At the very least, the palm tree hairdo — high-volume and imperfect in its entirety — conjured the carefree, fun-loving spirit Porte was after.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 27 Jan. 2026
All those great ships, their holds full of human cargo, had been conjured up in an unremarkable spot in present-day Mudchute Park.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Compared to his Mancunian peers, whose output conjured images of decaying industrial plants and mutant discos, this new Durutti Column suggested the domestic.
—Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conjured
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In a packed auditorium Wednesday night at the Idaho State Capitol, dozens of people with voices shaking and tears in their eyes begged lawmakers to hear their stories.—
Becca Savransky,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Feb. 2026
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At Dilley, Maria begged to be reunited with her cat, Milo.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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In 1899, a French entrepreneur named Gustave-Émile Dumoutier petitioned Hanoi’s local government, then a colonial possession of France, to develop a stately hotel on the corner of Henri-Rivière boulevard.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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With the Second Circuit’s ruling, Flores petitioned Caproni to reconsider her decision to toss his claims against the Dolphins.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Conjured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjured. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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