ingratiate

“If you’re gonna ingratiate yourself into the community, the first steps are the biggest ones, so having someone reluctantly sell to you is not the way to go,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

It did not take long for Garrett to ingratiate himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Ellison has spent months actively seeking to ingratiate himself with the Trump administration.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

He appeared to ingratiate himself into royal circles too, becoming a director of Pitch@Palace in 2016, and being appointed to the board of a royal charity, St George's House.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

“I expect Basta's divided it out among Capricorn's maids. He likes to ingratiate himself with them.”

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

“He ingratiated himself knowing that one day, he could use that information to defraud clients of thousands of dollars, eventually totaling in the millions,” Savery said Monday in a Santa Ana courtroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

The fans ingratiated themselves to the locals so much that the Mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, now plans to formalise an international partnership between the city and Glasgow.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

In a series of maneuvers fit for a John le Carré story, Mercader slowly ingratiated himself into the Trotsky household.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

"I really enjoyed the way that Stagg was not interested in ingratiating himself with anybody," he told BBC Culture correspondent David Sillito, calling him "a real fish out of water in this situation".

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He would begin a performance with Glass at the piano, bestowing an ingratiating quality of quiet pleasure on Ginsberg’s flowery imagery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

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

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

He almost continually flashed about the room the ingratiating boyish smile.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey