pleasure
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And so the old feeling is gone, another species of tactile pleasure made extinct by technological improvement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“It doesn’t give me pleasure to say that, but I simply do believe there’s a simple justice in that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
On my boat, a packed, three-deck pleasure cruise otherwise populated by swimsuit-clad tourists and screaming infants, the story was much the same.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
And, while human beings like pleasure, we hate pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
We left Marlene shut in there, helping herself busily to the hay, and rumbling with pleasure.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
My husband enjoyed humble pleasures, and he had two favorite fast-casual restaurants where the food was good.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Reviews so far have been mixed, with the Guardian describing it as a "nostalgia-bait return", external which is as "strange and messy as the first" but with "warm seasonal pleasures to be had".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Touch some grass: From the archives: Ben Mathis-Lilley examines the pleasures and benefits of getting out and mowing the lawn.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Comedy capers like this usually deflate in the third act when their pleasures get punctured by unfunny gunfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
My father, in his old age, had taken to traveling in disguise to enjoy the pleasures of common life.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
Mayor Bill de Blasio let out a pleasured tweet of thanks, saluting the State Senate’s co-leaders, the Democrat Klein and that noted progressive, the Republican Dean Skelos.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2014
Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he pleasured newshawks by presenting his weekly press conference with two enormous South Carolina melons, 3 ft. long and weighing, by report, 80 Ib. each.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew that I cared for no one of them; for nothing; not even for my beauty, except that—thank God!—it pleasured him.
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark
The act set Yellowstone aside as “a pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
"Heartbroken at the passing of Bert — a talented, kind young man who I had the pleasuring of working with numerous times on #LetsStayTogether," she tweeted.
From Fox News ● Nov. 9, 2020
They videotaped one year’s pleasuring, he says, and “one pig caught its hoof in a grate and had a little drop of blood on its hoof.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2011
In that year Congress designated a vast area in what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming as a public "pleasuring ground."
From Time Magazine Archive
This is early-closing day, and a half-holiday at Joy's school—that is why we are out pleasuring.
From Little Miss Joy by Emma Marshall
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