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The celebrations had barely faded when attention turned to the Champions League draw in late August, when Kairat earned a date with some of Europe’s biggest clubs among their eight opponents, including competition record winner Real Madrid.
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Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Saudi Arabia’s flagship investment event has named headline speakers for its October conference, showing that the kingdom continues to draw in some of the biggest names in global business and finance.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Modern airliners generally have turbofans, which draw in more air and travel much further on a tank of gas.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Christian M’billi also fought Lester Martinez to a split draw in a super middleweight fight.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
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Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Saudi Arabia’s flagship investment event has named headline speakers for its October conference, showing that the kingdom continues to draw in some of the biggest names in global business and finance.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Modern airliners generally have turbofans, which draw in more air and travel much further on a tank of gas.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Christian M’billi also fought Lester Martinez to a split draw in a super middleweight fight.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
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Nevertheless, when issues on mass transit occurred, the city could persuade PTC to improve conditions, but the city was only required to offer emergency services to commuters.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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The message sought to persuade the public to take measures to eliminate the spread of COVID-19.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Winter must be here early, because white fluffy insects are snowing down on Mississippi right now.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Newly evolved chalky plankton fed a steady conveyor belt of carbon gently snowing through oceans to the seafloor, where it was delivered to deep sea trenches, cooked and then released through the throats of volcanoes at the surface again as carbon dioxide.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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Unlike his small-time Israeli rivals, the placards implied, Netanyahu was a savvy statesman who punched above his weight on the international stage, thanks to his unaccented English oratory and ability to inveigle the world’s most powerful people.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver.—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Sep. 2023
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Amid the hangover of the 0-4 start, students shuffled out their dorms, lured by free food and faint promise of school spirit at the Rose Bowl.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Built at a cost of $29 billion, the railway is meant to help lure visitors away from coastal hot spots like Cancún and to create jobs and development opportunities in a region that has long been one of the poorest in Mexico.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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Her distinctive style stance has seduced the likes of Addison Rae, Ice Spice, Kylie Jenner, Hari Nef, Selena Gomez, Hailey Bieber, Chloë Sevigny and Sarah Jessica Parker.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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