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But you have no children, and you have already decided to remember your brother in your will, and yet your aunt decided to proffer a version of that request.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

He now says his proffer agreement with police, under which he agreed to tell them what he knew but it couldn't be used against him in court, was given under duress, according to Netflix.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

In the proffer, Blanche essentially asked her, and I’m paraphrasing, Why don’t you explain that to me?

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

If past is prologue, he will overreach in response to this week’s peace proffer, rejecting what many in his entourage would view as an attractive exit from a strategic miscue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

“The Holy Father bids us to accept your proffer, Lancelot” The pathos which was growing in the room was broken by the Orkney faction for the second time.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Standing out from the rest of the Crosstrek lineup, the Wilderness grade proffers a more distinct, rugged appearance.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025

The affecting narrative proffers feminist solutions for a troubled nation.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

When the judge asked Miller why he leaked the proffers, Miller defended his actions.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023

By the film’s end, some lessons will have been learned, though Holofcener proffers them with such disarming skill that you may not be aware you absorbed them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

She must only be asking if there are any I want as she proffers the tray like a wheel of good fortune.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

The meow, as cute and attuned as it may be to get a human’s attention, is not in his mind a tool for manipulation, as some have proffered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Batson established a three-part framework for racial juror challenges: Defense counsel challenges a strike, the prosecutor gives race-neutral reasons for it, then defense counsel has the opportunity to rebut those proffered reasons as pretextual.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

An MP close to Miliband proffered a more straightforward explanation.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

Although China has never offered a straightforward explanation for why it stopped sending the aircraft—and why it resumed again—Taiwanese officials and outside analysts in Taipei and Washington have proffered various theories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

And as the ship heaved in a storm, I heard the wailing of an infant, which would not cease though the mother proffered her breast.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is attending Davos, has been proffering similarly reassuring messages ahead of Trump’s arrival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

His moment in the Oval Office, proffering the invite from the King for a historic second state visit, "the most heart in mouth" moment of the whole year for some of his allies.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

Passersby pressed their hands into hers, proffering congratulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

Multiple objections from the defense didn’t prevent Rolle from proffering her answer: “Absolutely not, no.”

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2023

No husbands involved, Janis had said, proffering the idea as though it were an hors d’oeuvre.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen