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Recent Examples of peace offering
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
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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
After a tense phone call where the Chelsea-Emma-Chrishell trio accuses Bre of staging the cheating allegations for camera, Chrishell approaches Bre with a peace offering (a drum set for Bre’s son, Legendary Love Canon) and a promise to hear her side of the story.
—Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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, EW.com, 22 June 2024
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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
After a tense phone call where the Chelsea-Emma-Chrishell trio accuses Bre of staging the cheating allegations for camera, Chrishell approaches Bre with a peace offering (a drum set for Bre’s son, Legendary Love Canon) and a promise to hear her side of the story.
—Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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, EW.com, 22 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
Noun
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Kehlmann’s paternal grandparents survived because a Nazi official swung by every month and left with a piece of furniture, a bribe just large enough to get their file regularly placed at the bottom of a pile.—
David Segal,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Adams was indicted in 2024 on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals, and soliciting and accepting a bribe.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision last month to shut down Germany's oldest nuclear reactors and temporarily scrub life extensions for the rest was widely seen as a sop to voters in the state of Baden-Württemberg.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Apr. 2011
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Meanwhile, Davis has been overseeing a campus revitalization project that has not required the college to take on any loans, thanks in large part to his acumen for fundraising.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
12 May 2025
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According to federal authorities, Hamed obtained more than $2.3 million in PPP loans for his businesses and for his clients.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2025
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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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