as in welcomes
to receive or accept gladly or readily
the studio audience for the infomercial seemed to drink in—a little too readily—every word of the host's spiel
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Rick Solomon Lake Balboa The Los Angeles Times welcomes expressions of all views.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026 -
In addition to Kleinschmidt, 44, and Baeumler, 48, who switches over to being a mentor after several seasons of judging, the new season welcomes Renovation Aloha's Tristyn and Kamohai Kalama as the main scrutinizers of the weekly makeovers.—
Stacy Lambe,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Interest in the author’s life can curdle into obsession, as in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, in which the narrator embraces any deception necessary to acquire the letters of a dead poet.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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Galitzine embraces the indignity.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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“Drinks (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drinks%20%28in%29. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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