brown-nosing
Example Sentences
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AI is trained in part on what people like, and people prefer the brown-nosing, says Myra Cheng, a computer-science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“And when he wasn’t brown-nosing, he was talking about Bigfoot.”
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023
For those who think Watson suffered, stop with the celebrity brown-nosing, please.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022
OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2020
Some land of turning point arose the day a couple of kids wandered into the room, took in the scene and asked Jesse and the others if they were brown-nosing, scoring points.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
