peace offering

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Recent Examples of peace offering The book was a peace offering of sorts, and over lunch, the two men talked about old times and old wounds. Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 29 July 2025 Ahead of Colbert's cancellation, Paramount settled a defamation lawsuit with the president, a move viewed by some as a peace offering meant to improve the chances of a merger with Skydance Media before the FCC. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 28 July 2025 Swerve gave Hangman his chain back in a peace offering, and Hangman lynched Jon Moxley with the chain. Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025 David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network ends with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) refreshing the friend request of an ex-girlfriend, a pathetic and modern attempt at a peace offering as the movie tracks him through two contentious lawsuits. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for peace offering
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Noun
  • Flores is accused of brokering a meeting between a large-scale drug trafficker and the director of Venezuela's National Anti-Drug Office and allegedly accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
    CBS News, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Flores is accused of brokering a meeting between a large-scale drug trafficker and the director of Venezuela's National Anti-Drug Office and allegedly accepting thousands of dollars in bribes, per the outlet.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Schwartzman, though, is comic gold as an inappropriate inlaw while Sessa brightens things up as a broken-hearted sop who insinuates himself with all the elan of a Lab puppy into the neighbor’s next door household.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 Dec. 2025
  • President Jimmy Carter created the department in 1979 as a sop to the teachers unions.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The same logic applies to my loan.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Health care experts and politicians on both sides of the aisle agree that medical schools must find ways to lower their costs, but critics of the loan caps say limiting federal lending isn’t the answer.
    Tribune News Service, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 7 Jan. 2026.

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