pleasure
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Clark’s longtime manager Barry Katz told The Times in an emailed statement that Clark was “one of the funniest and most talented comedians and actors I have ever had the pleasure of watching.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
And that’s better than the fleeting pleasure of retaliatory pettiness, well-earned though it may be.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Throwing on “Real Housewives” or “Love Island” is a guilty pleasure for many of us after a tiring workday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Mr. Taylor’s search is consistently engaging and a pleasure to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Her cold manner took the pleasure out of the compliment.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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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
The many pleasures of this exuberant memoir for the landlubber include learning about the world of competitive sailing, even if the information comes with less-enjoyable updates about the author’s bowel movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
But in those days they were still two robust youngsters eager to enjoy life’s pleasures.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
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
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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
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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
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Take for our lady’s loyal sake This vagrant tale of mine, Where Cavalier and Roundhead break A reed for Right Divine, A tale it pleasured me to make, And most to make it thine.
From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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
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Your future life is not likely to be spent in pleasuring.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
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