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Recent Examples of draw in
The path to growth turns into a battle to draw in users from the competition.
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Chris Mele, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Last year's Amazon Prime Day drew in record-breaking sales, with more items sold in 48 hours than during any previous Prime Day event.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Open since 2014, the local favorite draws in heavy weekday-lunch crowds for franks.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
Uptown’s center-city banks draw in most of those people to Charlotte — a top five place to live, according to U.S. News and World Report.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2025
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Chris Mele, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Last year's Amazon Prime Day drew in record-breaking sales, with more items sold in 48 hours than during any previous Prime Day event.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Open since 2014, the local favorite draws in heavy weekday-lunch crowds for franks.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
Uptown’s center-city banks draw in most of those people to Charlotte — a top five place to live, according to U.S. News and World Report.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
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Or they could be persuaded that financial surveillance of businesses for transactions over $200 is necessary to prevent criminals from moving money.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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Becker had run in high school but was working as a mortgage broker when, with his 60th birthday approaching, a friend persuaded him to try a marathon in Minnesota.—
James Rainey
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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When plumes of water vapor from Saturn's moon Enceladus spew into space, that water vapor freezes and snows back onto the icy moon's surface, but those snowflakes would, according to previous theories, not have the intricate structure of snowflakes on Earth.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
9 July 2025
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There was snow covering the ground and still snowing hard.—
Mike Rayder,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 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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The shift in temperature translates into a false spring, lures the seeds to crack open; without this deception, the seeds refuse to sprout into life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s archive features postcards depicting Black children sitting near swamps to lure alligators.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2025
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But what really seduced me was the transgressive idea of imagining who else lives inside each of us.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
19 June 2025
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Teenagers and their parents can be easily seduced, so Underwood is respected for his role in keeping those players at Thorp Arch.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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