pleasantries

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Twenty years ago, founders proudly eschewed fashion and decorum, too busy writing code and devising a new world order to bother with pleasantries, like basic manners and French cuffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Wiener said she had known Pretti for around five years and would exchange pleasantries with him over the fence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

The list of subplots would have provided an intriguing backdrop to what are usually pre-match boardroom pleasantries, with Newcastle chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan in town to make his presence felt.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2025

I do trust him to tell us what’s going on without wasting time on pleasantries.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth