1
as in to indulge
to give in to (a desire)
just gratify this one whim of mine
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2
as in to satisfy
to give satisfaction to
your presence at the holiday table would really gratify your grandmother
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Recent Examples of gratify
And the first movie was recognized by the WGA, and I was gratified by that.
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
Somewhere along the line, a sense of progress becomes clearer, and what was tedious becomes gratifying.
—Dr. Rina Koshkina, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
What’s especially gratifying is the undeniable fact that Latin music’s relevance in the streaming charts is accompanied by a wave of radical creativity.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
But in the end, the collaboration, even with its intensity, was gratifying.
—Delano Massey, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
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Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
Somewhere along the line, a sense of progress becomes clearer, and what was tedious becomes gratifying.
—Dr. Rina Koshkina, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
What’s especially gratifying is the undeniable fact that Latin music’s relevance in the streaming charts is accompanied by a wave of radical creativity.
—Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
But in the end, the collaboration, even with its intensity, was gratifying.
—Delano Massey, Axios, 26 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for gratify
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gratify
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Their trip to Doha, Qatar, included cultural dinners, traditional garb, sightseeing, and hookah indulging, leaving Todd feeling right at home.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
29 Jan. 2025
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But the initial episodes get swept up in recapping the past few years of political events while indulging adult perspectives that feel outdated, if not outright regressive.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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But the good cop/bad cop act didn’t entirely satisfy her fanbase.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
9 Feb. 2025
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Scholars have debated the framers’ intentions in forming it, and a prominent theory is that the framers inserted the Second Amendment to satisfy anti-federalists, who feared a centralized government might attempt to disarm its citizens.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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The result is a classic, pleasing palette with a hint of color.—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Feb. 2025
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Côté’s doc provides a portrait of a man battling to find inner peace one Insta reel at a time by pleasing dominatrices.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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In 2020, Modi delighted Trump by inviting him before a cheering crowd of more than 100,000 people to inaugurate the world’s largest cricket stadium in his home state of Gujarat.—
AFP,
Fortune Asia,
14 Feb. 2025
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Before the game went south for Swift, her boyfriend Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs teammates, Kylie and Swift delighted fans when they were spotted out for dinner together in New Orleans ahead of the Super Bowl.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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More ducks are opting against migration due to evolution and natural selection — and there's an association with warming winters caused by climate change, Dale Gentry, director of conservation for Audubon Upper Mississippi River, told Axios.—
Nick Halter,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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This sort of community solidarity is essential in a warming planet where these sorts of environmental disasters are going to become more common, especially in parts of the world that lack resources or whose governments are not interested in providing them.—
Kristin Deasy,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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This is a season of TV full of adventure, lightsaber fights, and space dogfights, but also a season that brings back a childlike sense of wonder and humor to a franchise that had become a bit too somber.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2025
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This year’s breakout sounds were about sensuality and also humor.—
Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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Dodge won't spoil the surprise by confirming if the last one will be based on the Charger or the Challenger (or maybe both), but the evidence suggests the latter is more likely.—
Jack Fitzgerald,
Car and Driver,
13 Feb. 2023
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Farmers’ broiler chickens suffocate, and dairy products spoil.—
Monica Mark,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Feb. 2023
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“Gratify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gratify. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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