pleasure
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Augenbraun acknowledges that all this preparation can take away some of the pleasure of being outdoors and that, ultimately, awareness may simply be the best defense we have at our disposal.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
But while the subjects of pleasure and open-mindedness captivate her, on screen Anderson is not letting the industry pigeonhole her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Her winning partner Alakai, 30, is also putting business before pleasure with his $50,000 in prize money.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
"But what I shall most remember is the eye-opening pleasure of it all, and what I learnt about reading and the power of fiction from my fellow judges."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Everyone said, ‘It’s a pleasure to meet you.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Most people were eager to share their own experiences: the pains and the pleasures of aging, what they look forward to and reflect back upon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
This list leaves plenty room for drink breaks and requests before winding down to some near-universal pleasures.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Looking at food that way robs us of one of life’s greatest pleasures.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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
The newlyweds pleasured off to Italy, where Paul, who wanted to become a concert singer, studied.
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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
"They suit me well enough if the rule be not too rigidly enforced, so as to interfere with pleasuring."
From Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Finley, Martha
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