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Recent Examples of draw in
Coming off a loss and a draw in their last two games, the Catalans returned to winning ways on the continent with the number 8 as genius as ever when pulling the strings in the center of the park.
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Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As someone who has made all the rookie mistakes when buying perfume—shopping after hours, buying without trying, getting drawn in by a pretty bottle without considering the juice—I’ve lost considerable amounts of time searching in vain.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
Instead, the series prefers to regularly introduce additional enigmas into its central town that somehow keeps drawing in new residents despite being a nightmarish place that might be a parallel dimension, a pocket universe, purgatory, or even hell.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
Although unpaid streamers like Tubi and Pluto TV are seeing lots of success drawing in viewers, Amazon has taken the opposite tack and shuttered its Freevee service.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
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Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
As someone who has made all the rookie mistakes when buying perfume—shopping after hours, buying without trying, getting drawn in by a pretty bottle without considering the juice—I’ve lost considerable amounts of time searching in vain.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2024
Instead, the series prefers to regularly introduce additional enigmas into its central town that somehow keeps drawing in new residents despite being a nightmarish place that might be a parallel dimension, a pocket universe, purgatory, or even hell.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
Although unpaid streamers like Tubi and Pluto TV are seeing lots of success drawing in viewers, Amazon has taken the opposite tack and shuttered its Freevee service.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
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For Democrats who agree with Raskin, no amount of calls for returning to normalcy will persuade them to attend Trump's swearing-in ceremony.Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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Four vulnerabilities in WebKit were fixed in iOS 18.2, allowing memory corruption if you were persuaded to interact with malicious web content.Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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The roads were all completely iced over, snowed over and closed.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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Listen to this article New York City’s run of mild weather appears to be headed toward an abrupt end thanks to an Alberta Clipper bringing cold weather and possibly snow down from Canada.Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Dec. 2024
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On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver.Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
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Norman Mailer tried to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy, and not long after wrote a cruel letter to Styron, breaking off their friendship.Marion Winik, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
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West’s story is commonplace in the predatory world of post-graduate football, where thousands of young men have been lured by the promise of achieving their athletic aspirations, a USA TODAY investigation found.Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recommended Joy Five years after fire, a shining Notre Dame is ready to reopen its doors Underpinning the currency appreciation is a new tax amnesty to lure Argentines to declare their hidden United States dollar savings – longs squirreled away in offshore bank accounts and under mattresses.Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec. 2024
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The film was way ahead of its time with Fox as a demon possessed it girl, seducing and devouring mainly men.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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In one scene, Naomi seduces Jordan by walking into the room wearing nothing but stockings and shoes.Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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