as in to ingratiate
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After Polly ingratiates herself within the Morales family, Caitlyn starts noticing some disturbing behaviors.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025 -
While Carter is getting ingratiated into defensive coordinator Shane Bowen's schemes, edge rusher Brian Burns is having a marvelous season for New York.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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The nominee will face a high-wire act of placating the president (who wants steep interest rate cuts) while keeping the trust of investors worried about high inflation and political influence on the central bank.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Investors, though, weren’t placated by the explanation as Netflix’s shares still fell by about 6% in extended trading after the numbers came out.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Not content with one inventive twist, the low-budget Canadian horror thriller Pontypool has two.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Last week, Meta announced that Instagram will automatically place all users under 18 into Teen Accounts that default to content roughly equivalent to a PG-13 movie rating.—
Larry Magid,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Hoping to appease the authorities, Jin and his family moved to the US – and when the harassment toward church members in Beijing continued, Jin decided to return to China later that year while his family stayed behind.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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The statement could have also been to appease producer groups to some extent who are against these import ideas.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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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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Skip the spaghetti, and let meatballs shine in this bowl of cheesy, hearty, comforting recipe.—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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For a hearty, comforting main course, serve Farmer Boggis’ Chicken and Dumplings, a dish that screams rustic country cooking.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Oct. 2025
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Those who don’t earn a championship game berth can console themselves with at least six wins and a bowl berth.—
Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025
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Recent studies show that while AI has at least some capacity to display empathy, people still prefer consoling messages from other humans.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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Numerous major obstacles still lie ahead, including the future administration of Gaza and the demand for Hamas to disarm.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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Nothing is lost in this interpretive framework except historical truth in its most disarming configurations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Endear (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endear%20%28to%29. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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