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Recent Examples of draw in
The companies claim that combining AI and robots will draw in top personnel and guarantee the preservation of important industry knowledge.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2025
From 1935 to 1938, Temple was the biggest box office draw in the world, filling more seats in theaters than leading man Clark Gable and bona fide superstars like Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 28 Mar. 2025
The cross-border travel trends and Trump administration’s policies are worrying some in the United States’ travel industry, which draws in more than $1 trillion in direct spending a year.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
Both are about flawed men with the best intentions who come into the hospital because something inside of them is broken or wrong, and the attempt to fix it draws in doctors, nurses, and of course, the audience.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2025
From 1935 to 1938, Temple was the biggest box office draw in the world, filling more seats in theaters than leading man Clark Gable and bona fide superstars like Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo.
—Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 28 Mar. 2025
The cross-border travel trends and Trump administration’s policies are worrying some in the United States’ travel industry, which draws in more than $1 trillion in direct spending a year.
—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
Both are about flawed men with the best intentions who come into the hospital because something inside of them is broken or wrong, and the attempt to fix it draws in doctors, nurses, and of course, the audience.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
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Part of persuading consumers to spend on sustainable products comes from carefully planned and executed advertising and marketing campaigns.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Mar. 2025
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But the taxpayer still persuaded the Tax Court.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 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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Anyone trying to snow the public with bogus math felt his sting and earned his contempt.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 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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Seminole was the first local government in the state to impose financial penalties — up to $100 a day — on residents who unwittingly or intentionally lure bears into neighborhoods by failing to secure trash, leaving pet-food bowls outdoors or hanging birdfeeders.—
Martin E. Comas,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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Unless Max Fried comes out of the gate smoking, there is no other Bombers pitcher who can lure as many eyeballs to the TV as Cole.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
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Single women—more likely, naturally, to be seduced by the devil—were disproportionately executed for witchcraft.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
2 Apr. 2025
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Taking over a century-old garden house hidden within Shanghai’s storied alleys, Samuel Gui Yang softly partitioned the space, seducing the audience yet making every one of them a clandestine voyeur.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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