patronize
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Who would patronize these houses of financial ill-repute?
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
Woolf could patronize American writing in 1919 in part because the U.S. still seemed provincial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
I’ve been thinking about the nightclubs our community used to frequent and the ones we patronize now.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
Azuka said it has resonated with audiences who she was keen not to "patronize".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
I thought, Already he’s starting to patronize me.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The opportunity is now for the public to show that it prefers non-idiocy in the media outlets it patronizes and is willing to pay for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
He never panders to them or patronizes the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
She said the retailers she patronizes include Express, Shein, and Walmart.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
“Brimstone & Glory’s” greatest grace comes from its subjects, whom Jakovleski neither patronizes nor fetishizes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017
Thick rugs cover every floor, and paintings from several local artists she patronizes line our walls.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
They know when they’re being patronized, even if they don’t always say it.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2025
Shops are open, sidewalk cafes are well patronized and cars clog the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
She said the East was largely misunderstood by West Germans — belittled, patronized and often ignored.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Yet Uganda’s collecting class remains minuscule, with new shows patronized by hip youngsters and expatriates.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Whites who came at night got a better reception; the several Harlem nightclybs they patronized were geared to entertain and jive the night white crowd to get their money.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
I think a lot of other people who were 30 years old would have probably come in and just either sweated it or been patronizing.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
What were they doing to develop “anti-smog muffler devices”? A month later, Hahn got back the first of many testy, patronizing responses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
You can empathize with your friend without demonizing your own position or patronizing her by saying everything will be OK.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026
Xavier is much older than she is and seems, frankly, somewhat stupid and patronizing, but the narrator is nevertheless tormented by her feelings for him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
But his patronizing advice was unrealistic for a working-class teenager.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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