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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
Noun
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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
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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
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This being a French toy store, Arthaud does offer the occasional sop to adults.—
Shauna Lyon,
New Yorker,
4 July 2025
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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
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The 23-year-old has had successful loans in the lower leagues for the past three seasons with Chester, Chesterfield and Blackpool, but has no top-level (or even Championship) experience.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Every industry is moving in a similar direction, Kedia argues, from financial services companies building software engines capable of making investment decisions or accepting or rejecting loan applications, to retailers now building inventory and purchasing experiences around their customers.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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