deign
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Still, when she does deign to speak, there’s a dynamite scene where she dresses down Julian critically and psychologically.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
She is completely in a pantheon that I could only deign to touch.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
Brown and black bears focus on the oily brains and nutritious roe of salmon when the fish are abundant and deign to chow down on whole fish only in years when salmon aren’t plentiful.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2023
And when she does deign to talk policy, she phones it in.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2023
Mathematicians who don’t deign to communicate their subject to a wider audience are a little like multimillionaires who don’t contribute anything to charity.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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