peace offering

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Recent Examples of peace offering 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 After a tense phone call where the Chelsea-Emma-Chrishell trio accuses Bre of staging the cheating allegations for camera, Chrishell approaches Bre with a peace offering (a drum set for Bre’s son, Legendary Love Canon) and a promise to hear her side of the story. Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024 Sacha Baron Cohen reprises his role as Borat Sagdiyev, a journalist from Kazakhstan tasked with delivering a monkey as a peace offering to Vice President Mike Pence. Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 22 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for peace offering
Recent Examples of Synonyms for peace offering
Noun
  • The contractor executive, Jessie Bledsoe, agreed to pay the bribe, prosecutors said.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
  • Other officers were charged with fraud, accepting bribes, possessing assault weapons and various other crimes.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision last month to shut down Germany's oldest nuclear reactors and temporarily scrub life extensions for the rest was widely seen as a sop to voters in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2011
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Davis has been overseeing a campus revitalization project that has not required the college to take on any loans, thanks in large part to his acumen for fundraising.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 12 May 2025
  • According to federal authorities, Hamed obtained more than $2.3 million in PPP loans for his businesses and for his clients.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025

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“Peace offering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peace%20offering. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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