pander to
Example Sentences
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Jon: Chinese consumers often call out foreign brands that they feel lazily pander to Chinese tastes—like adding a dragon design and calling it a “Year of the Dragon” shoe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
I've never known a manager to pander to a player as much as he does.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
But the jury is out on whether Warsh will "pander to the president" if persistent inflation called for higher rates, he added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
