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pleasure

[plezh-er] / ˈplɛʒ ər /




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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

And—there’s no doubt—Tanden takes some pleasure in dispatching them.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

But it cannot offer the particular surprise of encountering another person who has decided, for no reason other than the pleasure of it, to show me something strange and wonderful.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

But The Hollywood Reporter, external was more positive, calling it "a warming, sometimes poignant pleasure".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

How there could have been any pleasure in the sight of these stick-thin legs and hunger-bloated stomachs I could not imagine.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

But he leans into the prison’s small pleasures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 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

Nothing has degraded more for Latino men, however, than the simple pleasures of life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

“Then the pleasures and sorrows of his life will belong to him again. Until then, some of them fall to me. May I request that you come to your point?”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

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

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

"Moreover had We pleasured We had certainly raised up a warner in every city."

From A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 by Cherágh Ali

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

A whole family had come in from Kioto for the day's pleasuring.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling


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