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Recent Examples of peace offering
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.
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 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
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 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
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
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Andrew Do, the former Orange County supervisor who took more than $550,000 in bribes over COVID-relief money meant to buy meals for needy, elderly constituents, was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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These include: Scott Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, who was convicted of accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing individuals as auxiliary deputies.—
Peter Aitken
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 June 2025
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The reinstatement was an obvious sop to the gambling industry, an MLB partner, and possibly also to President Donald Trump, who lobbied for Rose’s future election into the Hall of Fame.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
1 June 2025
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Simpson emerged as a spear-carrier for Social Security benefit cuts in 2010, when he was appointed the GOP co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established by Barack Obama as a sop to conservative deficit hawks.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Shahar, the 18-year-old, has trained with the senior side since February and has impressed, and the early idea seems to be for the full-back to stay, play in the UEFA Youth League and continue to develop under Howe, before a potential loan in January.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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Bank of America had been the company’s go-to lender over the years, arranging loans, underwriting stock offerings, and pitching takeover ideas.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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