blandishment

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Recent Examples of blandishment The fateful lane change arose out of one mayor’s resistance to such blandishments. Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 May 2020 Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story. Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 The region’s main powers, Australia and New Zealand, fear the creation of a mendicant state on their doorsteps, susceptible, in particular, to Chinese bribes and blandishments. The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 Having failed to win the Japanese around with blandishments, an increasingly desperate-looking Senard has reached for the stick. Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for blandishment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blandishment
Noun
  • She was drawn to his humor and charm.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Tyla stars in the campaign for Pandora’s new Talisman collection, which features charms with ancient coin motifs.
    Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Siemens Healthineers Historical Institute Like many stories in the history of technology, this one was pushed into fruition at the urging of a woman, in this case Else-Marie Larsson.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The district considered closing Olsen as part of Hollywood Central’s K-8 conversion but decided against it at the urging of Dania Beach city leaders.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And when the offer comes, don’t rely on flattery.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • In aggregate, users favored responses full of agreement and flattery.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Merlin Revenue Solutions didn’t respond to an email entreaty either.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Despite the entreaties from suburban locales to build a stadium outside Colorado’s capital city, most reporting this summer has pointed to evidence that the Broncos are most strongly exploring a site that would keep them in Denver.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Checkers can see your shortcuts, your reportorial wheedling, your blind spots.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her voice was loud and hoarse, calling out comments or exhortations concerning the game.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But local leaders had no doubt about the perpetrators, even though the state’s campaign had previously been carried out through public exhortations and directives, not clandestine repaintings.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Claude can’t disentangle her years-ago affair with Mathias from feelings of self-recrimination and guilt, and seesaws between anger and seduction.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This is the seduction drawing the ultra rich.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The butter, which has honey in it, raises a serious concern.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But everyone knows that, like Labubus, butter yellow, and Benson Boone, this isn’t going to last.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Blandishment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blandishment. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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