as in to ingratiate
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The scene takes place in 2014, well away from the singularity of robot sentience, but at that point in Harrison’s compressed yet expansive drama, the idea of an artificial intelligence ingratiating itself into a human family already feels eerie.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Feb. 2025 -
Seeing anyone go through anything challenging ingratiates that person to you.—
Max Gao,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
Verb
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His manner with the girl is more bemused, placating.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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The proud and diminutive Ukrainian refused to allow Trump to sell out Ukraine to placate Putin without any security guarantee from Trump’s government.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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Timothée Chalamet-starring Oscar contented A Complete Unknown from Searchlight Pictures is holding at no. 8 at 2,010 locations with a $3.1 million weekend.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2025
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The algorithm reacts more favorably to content with babies and toddlers, with that content generally performing better than content featuring older children.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2025
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Return hubs are not a solution to our problems related to migration, but rather populism to appease the extreme right.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions over whether expanding ties with Greenland would appease Trump’s ambitions, though on Sunday Trump reiterated his position on the island nation.—
Caitlin McFall,
Fox News,
11 Mar. 2025
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Since 1979, the United States has sought to contain or propitiate the regime in Tehran.—
Danielle Pletka,
National Review,
6 Nov. 2023
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Both the sirens and Proteus know much, if not all, that has happened upon the face of the earth, but whereas the sirens sing their song unbidden while taking the hearer’s life in return, Proteus under compulsion tells the hearer the proper animal sacrifice to offer to propitiate the gods.—
Marina Warner,
The New York Review of Books,
27 May 2021
Verb
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Will the many people who can’t get off the hamster wheel of attention-wrangling on social media today become attached to A.I. lovers that are ceaselessly attentive, loyal, flattering, and comforting?—
Jaron Lanier,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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Hindsight is unfailingly comforting in clarifying such market proclivities.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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Later that evening, Cara attempts to console the girl, who's crying in her bedroom.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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The unlikely scene stealers include a boxer in Brooklyn whose mother consoles him after a loss and warns him to control his temper in public; and the philosopher Jacques Derrida, who likens Johnson to a different sort of philosopher — the kind who falls into a well while looking at the stars.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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There’s no better way to disarm and charm by laughing after dismantling the best player in the world, just as a 17-year-old Maria Sharapova did in the 2004 Wimbledon final against Serena Williams.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Julani has ordered all armed groups in the country to disarm, including the SDF.—
Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Endear (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/endear%20%28to%29. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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