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sycophancy

noun as in self-seeking or servile flattery

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The spoof featured the society's imaginary president declaring: "True sycophancy is non-political."

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Trump, in the bubble of sycophancy he’s created in the Cabinet, Congress and among his base, proceeds with few checks.

It said it would build more guardrails to increase transparency, and refine the system itself "to explicitly steer the model away from sycophancy".

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Gage said she found the most frightening aspect to be Patel’s sycophancy to Trump.

Carvey's bouncing and buffoonish take on Musk's sycophancy struck a chord, with the Tesla head commenting on it on X.

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