as in to ingratiate
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By summer 2024, Ferro – who had already stolen more than $5 million of bitcoin from a victim in Texas, according to the department – had ingratiated himself with racketeering ring leaders and offered his residential burglary services for future ring operations.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
8 May 2026 -
Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone and complained at the loss of their ingratiating robotic companion.—
Cody Turner,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
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Spurs will content themselves that their destiny remains in their hands.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 May 2026
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In the example below, a search for urban green spaces produces suggested links to content about specific projects in New York and Singapore.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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House leaders added that language to placate conservative holdouts, many of whom oppose extending Section 702 without reforms to the program.—
Stefan Becket,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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In your opinion, should the shop have handled this differently—perhaps compensating or at least placating me?—
Hartford Courant,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Its positions are so hostile to the West, even by the standards of Iran’s conservative hardliners, that the regime’s efforts to appease it have so far failed.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
9 May 2026
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What Musgraves is doing here is not like the bro-country guys who ease off trap drums to appease country traditionalists.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 May 2026
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Rulers on the Nile did not rely solely on their own human powers but worshipped and propitiated a natural world that was alive with gods.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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The credulous faith that these superpowers will voluntarily settle for some form of peaceful coexistence, if only they are sufficiently propitiated with concessions, is naive and dangerous.—
Michael Miklaucic,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2025
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As a pastor, Readon is known in the community for fighting gun violence, often showing up at rallies and seen comforting grieving family members.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2026
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Trade coleslaw for this warm, comforting dish and its crispy Parmesan breadcrumb topping.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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Among other gadget makers, Sony and Microsoft have increased the prices of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles multiple times over the last year.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
8 May 2026
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And the most powerful among them, particularly those who didn’t face actual criminal charges, managed to put their head down, console themselves with their enormous bank account, and gradually reemerge into public life as though nothing had happened.—
Hillary Busis,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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With the world’s attention fixed on the war in Iran, Israel is expanding its control over the enclave and killing hundreds more Palestinians while Hamas refuses to disarm as required by the ceasefire agreement.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
14 May 2026
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Never committing to any one character’s point of view, Balagov and Stepnova’s script freewheels in meandering but mostly disarming fashion between these strands, with an errant storytelling rhythm aptly reflective of lives that are at once static and in perpetually unproductive motion.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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“Endear (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endear%20%28to%29. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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