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Ross, meanwhile, is trying to ingratiate himself with and improve the local community by funding scholarships for hundreds of local public high-school students to attend a nearby community college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Sir Keir, like Emmanuel Macron before him, had sought to ingratiate himself with the wildly unpredictable American president, convinced that was the pragmatic course of action.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2024

For some reason, he thought that was a friendly way to ingratiate himself to this African American man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

The Steward was the superior, but the Butler had more opportunities to ingratiate himself with the Scholars, and made full use of them.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

El Dorado is controlled by a gangster known only by his first name, Fabio, a Pablo Escobar-type character who has ingratiated himself with locals through acts of charity.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Ferrety and clean-shaven, Zanjani never served in the military, but he ingratiated himself with the Revolutionary Guard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

At first, this is thought to have ingratiated the group with some locals - but this was short-lived.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025

Barry Keoghan sported a similarly spangled jacket over a mesh tank top, looking not too different than his “Saltburn” character did when he ingratiated himself with the nobility.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

The two operatives acting as cattlemen soon ingratiated themselves with William Hale, who considered them fellow Texas cowboys and who introduced them to many of the leading townsfolk.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

To investigators in the U.K., what’s glaring instead is that his ingratiating friends leaked privileged financial information to the former banker that he might have parlayed into insider-trading gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

He made the most of this connection, flying the Welsh flag and ingratiating himself with locals, who fell for the charms of "this lovely man".

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Thus far, he seems to have done a terrible job of ingratiating himself to others: Most recently, the office’s top criminal prosecutor resigned rather than follow his allegedly improper orders.

From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2025

Both show off Glaser’s gift for grabbing a subject, attacking it from every side, playing smart and dumb, ingratiating and insulting, going sweet or sour.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2024

I heard the alley door open and Willemse’s voice, smooth and ingratiating.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom