as in bribe
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Recent Examples of peace offering
Rookie cast member Eady, who had started a feud with Moore earlier in the season, arrived with a peace offering, a bouquet of flowers with a card.
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
Attending the grand opening, the insurance agent brought Moore flowers and a card as a peace offering, which Moore made a show of rejecting.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
Attending the grand opening, the insurance agent brought Moore flowers and a card as a peace offering, which Moore made a show of rejecting.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
The club’s activity in the winter window, bringing in four first-team signings, did at least act as a peace offering.
—Sam Lee, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
Noun
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Prosecutors alleged that Jenkins accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of campaign contributions from various individuals, including two who were undercover FBI agents.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
26 May 2025
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Also, the administration announced a pause in criminal enforcement of a law that prohibits U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign officials, according to NBC News.—
Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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The reinstatement was an obvious sop to the gambling industry, an MLB partner, and possibly also to President Donald Trump, who lobbied for Rose’s future election into the Hall of Fame.—
Cory Franklin,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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Simpson emerged as a spear-carrier for Social Security benefit cuts in 2010, when he was appointed the GOP co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established by Barack Obama as a sop to conservative deficit hawks.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Expenses like loans, insurance, utilities and labor still add up.—
Bob Rauch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 May 2025
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Now, right now many of you are trying to make career connections and networking connections and are applying for jobs and grad schools and quietly panicking about rent and loans and the price of eggs.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
23 May 2025
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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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