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Recent Examples of draw in
That’s likely due in part to the less competitive nature of this year’s matchup as well as the fact that the Chiefs were and still are the biggest draw in the NFL.
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
This badger, likely also drawn in by the promise of a snack, was on the prowl.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Siki was a top draw in promotions like Maple Leaf Wrestling, Grand Prix Wrestling, and Stampede Wrestling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
This has drawn in a flood of tourists since the country reopened its doors in 2022.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2025
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Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
This badger, likely also drawn in by the promise of a snack, was on the prowl.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Siki was a top draw in promotions like Maple Leaf Wrestling, Grand Prix Wrestling, and Stampede Wrestling.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
This has drawn in a flood of tourists since the country reopened its doors in 2022.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
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As Trump has threatened to increase tariffs on all Chinese imports, China agreeing to sell TikTok to a US buyer could help persuade Trump to diminish those blows, the thinking goes.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025
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In 1932, for example, the American Federation of Musicians persuaded Congress to impose limits on these ad hoc permits under the Musicians Immigration Clarification Act.Gabrielle Clark, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
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The forecast calls for temperatures in the low 30s with sleet and snow a possibility.Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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The Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens might get snowed on during their playoff game on Sunday evening amid brutally cold temperatures.David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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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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Geyser, along with her co-defendant Anissa Weier, lured Leutner into the woods during a sleepover in 2014 to play hide-and-seek.Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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The badgers are no longer gassed, they are mostly now lured into fields at night and shot by specialist teams of exterminators.Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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Film The Eternal Becoming of Sofia Coppola Soraya Roberts Like so many of her heroines, the director seduces to control.hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Football had already seduced the teenager when the father of a friend, who was the quarterback for the Everett High School team in Massachusetts where Sainristil starred, pulled some union ties for the cemetery job.Ben Standig, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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