ingratiate
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Ross, meanwhile, is trying to ingratiate himself with and improve the local community by funding scholarships for hundreds of local public high-school students to attend a nearby community college.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Sir Keir, like Emmanuel Macron before him, had sought to ingratiate himself with the wildly unpredictable American president, convinced that was the pragmatic course of action.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025
Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2024
For some reason, he thought that was a friendly way to ingratiate himself to this African American man.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2024
“I expect Basta's divided it out among Capricorn's maids. He likes to ingratiate himself with them.”
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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