- present participle of pander.
pandering
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“Practical Magic 2” is an exercise in girl-power pandering in which the Owenses, three pairs of sisters from the same family of witches, live gingerly on an idyllic Massachusetts island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Lacy doesn’t come off as someone overly concerned with doing big numbers, or pandering to a newfound pop audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
“The experience of being Arab and Muslim has been to be the object of hate by one party and the subject of pandering by another. Both of them are alienating,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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