pleasure
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I’ve had the pleasure of observing polite behavior and respectable Americans, young and old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The England international has said that Gabriel made "my life easy since I've joined the club and it's been a pleasure playing alongside him".
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Asked what that might look like, he returned to the pleasure of people gathering around music, as his family once had.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
That’s part of the pleasure of hospitality, isn’t it?
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
“If something brings us mutual pleasure and harms no one, it’s a virtue.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
But he leans into the prison’s small pleasures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
He said his parents were deeply religious and so strict that even simple pleasures such as singing were forbidden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Could there be a place where Joan and Jean don’t have to sacrifice their codependent sisterly bond to enjoy life’s pleasures?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Now he's enjoying the simple pleasures of being able to come home and put the kettle on or have a shower after he moved in to a new social home two weeks ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
If the capital had its dangers, it had plenty of pleasures, too.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
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
The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.
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
This I know, he loved Me then, and pleasured only where I moved About the house.
From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
It did not check his rising wrath to perceive that they were a brace of young “bloods” out on a pleasuring excursion.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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