pleasingness

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Noun
  • And if anything, the burgeoning business of dupes has upped the desirability of the real thing.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 May 2026
  • By increasing their desirability, the state can generate significant revenue, which would then be used to enhance cash flow for essential services such as insurance, energy and pharmaceuticals.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • This one blends apple and pear for sweetness and texture.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
  • Edamame with Sea Salt & Dried Fruit This pairing creates a nice balance of nutrients with a touch of natural sweetness.
    Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Sycophancy is largely the result of a machine learning technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback, an incentive structure that encourages excessive agreeableness in models.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
  • This dynamic creates a feedback loop in which users reward agreeableness with engagement, and AI companies are incentivized to optimize a model to exploit agreeableness.
    Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The researchers found that people's accuracy in distinguishing sugar from sweetener depended heavily on expectations, and pleasantness ratings also shifted accordingly.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Surely there was something more beneath all this mild pleasantness, some edge of resentment, a few shards of indignation on the brink of cutting through.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The shift is in how niceness is defined.
    Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Others offered to pick her up a Friday fish fry – Midwest niceness at its finest.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But in hiring the three-time Stanley Cup winner, the Ducks earned credibility in terms of coaching acumen and became an attraction for players.
    Eric Stephens, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • It is housed in the same building as the attraction’s affiliate, The Escape Game, which opened in 2015 and took hold in the world of escape rooms.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Onscreen, the seduction was working.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The seduction was really his personality and his focus on the children.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Pleasingness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasingness. Accessed 17 May. 2026.

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