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• v  ask humbly (for something)
  He supplicated the King for clemency
• v  make a humble, earnest petition
  supplicate for permission
• v  ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
  supplicate God's blessing

• Among the practices that they cited: price fixing, bribery, and the supplying of call girls to supplicate customers.
• Hotels were jammed with the jubilant and the job-hungry, come to celebrate or supplicate.
• Among the practices that they cited: price fixing, bribery, and the supplying of call girls to supplicate customers.