peace offering

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Recent Examples of peace offering Putin cares little for European or American pressure, simply proposing a minimalist peace offering, with maximalist demands, and refusing to budge. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 16 May 2025 Attending the grand opening, the insurance agent brought Moore flowers and a card as a peace offering, which Moore made a show of rejecting. Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 Rookie cast member Eady, who had started a feud with Moore earlier in the season, arrived with a peace offering, a bouquet of flowers with a card. Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025 Rookie cast member Eady, who had started a feud with Moore earlier in the season, arrived with a peace offering, a bouquet of flowers with a card. Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peace offering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
Noun
  • For instance, Sugihara’s self-discovery occurs after his family pays a bribe to switch their citizenship from North Koreans to South Koreans—just so that his parents can visit Hawai‘i.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 11 July 2025
  • By his own admission, the Mexican lawman known as El Diablo — The Devil — supervised a scourge of torture, murder, kidnappings, land grabs and other abuses while amassing a fortune in cartel bribes that bankrolled purchases of homes, cattle and a fleet of buses.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • This being a French toy store, Arthaud does offer the occasional sop to adults.
    Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 4 July 2025
  • As a sop to preservationists, the university salvaged the 1848 façade and tower, keeping them freestanding and pointless, like a souvenir on a shelf.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • But Bloomberg said the Central Bank told lenders to focus on restructuring credit with the borrowers and absorb the bad loans.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • The elimination of Grad PLUS loans comes amid a mounting nationwide physician shortage.
    Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025

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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 27 Jul. 2025.

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