pleasure

Additional experiments showed that activation of the central amygdala reduced dopamine release in important parts of the brain's reward system while the mice were eating for pleasure.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

I find more pleasure in living my life like that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

This detail matters because it collapses the false divide between pleasure and care.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

"They've been an absolute pleasure to play in front of for these two days. I love that I played some good golf there and something to cheer about," said the European Ryder Cup star.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Always interfering where she wasn’t wanted. And now, look at her. I could help her, of course. It would be easy. Therefore, it gives me no small amount of pleasure to refuse to do so.”

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

“Oh Yeah?” is an artful, side-eyed smirk at the pleasures and melancholy of stardom, from an artist who has remade rock and R&B for the bi-panic era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

In other moments, she emphasises simple pleasures, writing of the "joy found in ordinary things" and "the everyday magic of life itself".

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

JG: I’ve been loving the stories about global soccer stars enjoying the strange pleasures of American culture and cuisine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Turner played hymn after hymn, repeating a few verses when she hummed to the chorus, taking care to avoid the ones that suggested the pleasures of leaving this weary world.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

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

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

We hung the garden terraces That pleasured Queen Semiramis.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

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

No such luck; the ship delayed; and at last, about three, I had to send them home again, a failure of a day’s pleasuring that does not bear to be discussed.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew