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pleasured

verb

past tense of pleasure

as in pleased

to give satisfaction to a wine that is sure to pleasure even the most discriminating palate

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Recent Examples of pleasured Fifty years ago, a young woman named Hannah pleasured herself in a erotic magazine photo spread. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026

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New Hampshire Democrats not pleased One-time heavyweights New Hampshire and Iowa battled to reclaim spots at the front of the calendar and weighed whether to go rogue against the DNC.

— Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Jim was, however, pleased to see that Citi thinks Azure is doing well.

— Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 15 July 2026

Definition of pleased

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Rashida really walks this wonderful line between laughing at him and being delighted by him.

— Devon Ivie, Vulture, 30 July 2026
Far better was his save in a freezing Vienna in December 1996 against Rapid in the Champions League, which delighted the 5,000 travelling United fans and stunned the Austrians.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of delighted

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Kuwait is known to be overwhelmingly dependent on desalination for drinking water, with almost 90% of the arid nation’s water demand satisfied through seawater desalination plants.

— Michael Wayland,Azhar Sukri,Terri Cullen, CNBC, 18 July 2026
The bánh cuốn đặc biệt — a combination plate with plain steamed rice sheets, sheets stuffed with ground pork and mushroom and pieces filled with shrimp — satisfied my internet FOMO cravings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of satisfied

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The structure leans heavily on concrete, steel and glass, but it’s warmed by wood, basalt and marble finishes and by the way the house frames the surrounding terrain.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
The other examines how climate change altered the characteristics of the event that happened; for example, whether a hurricane produced more rainfall or a heat wave became hotter because the atmosphere has warmed.

— Deepti Singh, The Conversation, 24 July 2026

Definition of warmed

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At the reception, everyone sat at tables named for Italian directors and feasted on dishes like linguine with baby squid and soused trout by chef Antonino Cannavacciuolo.

— Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo feasted off low crosses to each score twice, punctuating this as the World Cup of cutbacks.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026

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