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pleasure

[plezh-er] / ˈplɛʒ ər /




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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

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

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

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

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

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

Your future life is not likely to be spent in pleasuring.

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner


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