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

This was a way to further ingratiate himself to the man who called him “Johnny.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Her decision to run for Senate did not ingratiate her with Washington’s Democratic leadership.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

But I didn't know how to ingratiate myself with the cool kids.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

Oil companies have ingratiated themselves to investors since the pandemic by doing the exact opposite: ruling out expensive investments in new drilling in favor of spending that money on bigger dividends.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 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

In the course of these walks, Michelson so ingratiated himself to the President that Grant agreed to secure for him a free place at the U.S.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

But Garry—as enacted by Mr. Warren-Smith, whose double-barreled surname wouldn’t suit the lowdown lunacy Garry gets up to—is a warmly ingratiating performer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

"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

In person he’s ingratiating, charming, eager to please.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024

“Did you not use enough of your concealment techniques, even after ingratiating yourself with Chandresh to control the venue?”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern