PEACE OFFERING Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

peace offering

noun

Definition of peace offering

as in bribe

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Recent Examples of peace offering Sacha Baron Cohen reprises his role as Borat Sagdiyev, a journalist from Kazakhstan tasked with delivering a monkey as a peace offering to Vice President Mike Pence. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026 This week, Cardi B makes a bold return, Miley Cyrus taps rock icons Lindsay Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood for a soulful peace offering, and Lola Young leans into her messy chaos. — Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025 After congregants walked around reflecting and connecting with the Cathedral, Roberson resumed services with familiar rituals —communion, peace offerings and prayers. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025 To smooth over tensions, the New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for peace offering

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Many choose to make use of a corrupt brokerage system, where people with connections in the foreign ministry and other regime appendages facilitate large bribes for new, and sometimes fake, documentation.

— Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
Diamantis has another pending criminal case in federal court, where he's accused of taking bribes to quash a state audit of an eye doctor accused of Medicaid fraud.

— CBS News, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of bribe

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Sussman cites one study in which women who had substantial student-loan debt were around forty per cent less likely to have kids than those who didn’t carry debt.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
New Trier Township High School District 203 — which is 91% funded by local property taxes — received a $22 million loan from the county’s program.

— A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026

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