as in to rope (in)
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Recent Examples of draw in
Superheroes are no longer a safe bet at the box office, but video game adaptations such as Sonic, Super Mario and Minecraft are drawing in huge crowds.
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Praising his opponents, who managed to force a draw in 32 moves, Carlsen told the website that The World team had been unrelenting in their gameplay.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 20 May 2025
After all, the 23-year-old Fever point guard and 23-year-old Sky forward have drawn in record-breaking crowds since their college days, starting with some viral trash talk during the NCAA championship game between Reese’s LSU Tigers and Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 May 2025
After Michael finds Nathan outside a busy office building, a confrontation ensues, drawing in a good Samaritan, Simon, who diffuses the tension and offers to buy Michael lunch.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Praising his opponents, who managed to force a draw in 32 moves, Carlsen told the website that The World team had been unrelenting in their gameplay.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 20 May 2025
After all, the 23-year-old Fever point guard and 23-year-old Sky forward have drawn in record-breaking crowds since their college days, starting with some viral trash talk during the NCAA championship game between Reese’s LSU Tigers and Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 May 2025
After Michael finds Nathan outside a busy office building, a confrontation ensues, drawing in a good Samaritan, Simon, who diffuses the tension and offers to buy Michael lunch.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
Verb
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For fifteen years, the Patriotic Millionaires have waged an earnest battle to persuade wealthy people to lobby for higher taxes on themselves.—
Evan Osnos,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The filmmakers told me that Spiegelman’s free-speech run-in with the county school board was instrumental in persuading WNET to back Disaster Is My Muse.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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So her side was like snowing, and then my side was blue sky.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
27 May 2025
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She was snowed into her village and couldn't reach a hospital.—
Khwaga Ghani,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2025
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Unlike his small-time Israeli rivals, the placards implied, Netanyahu was a savvy statesman who punched above his weight on the international stage, thanks to his unaccented English oratory and ability to inveigle the world’s most powerful people.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 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
Verb
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Brooks, in her movies, lures men to their doom—or taunts men with her availability, only to refuse them.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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He was named head coach of the Red Wings in May 2015 after the Toronto Maple Leafs lured Babcock out of Detroit with an eight-year, $50 million deal, the NHL’s richest contract for a coach at the time.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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Sirens is smartest when paralleling the entitlement of 21st century American wealth with Ancient Greek divinity, skewering the insularity and entitlement of these modern plutocrats who throw galas to honor themselves and to torment or seduce the mortals who are their employees and playthings.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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This would suck capital investment back to America in a nanosecond and financially seduce companies to reshore factories, labs and headquarters back here with bargain-low tax rates.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2025
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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