sweeten

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Officials decided to sweeten the pot by offering to export the “Taiwan model” of high-tech industrial clusters to America.

From The Wall Street Journal

Norton, for example, had already worked out a deep price reduction when the dealer sweetened the pot.

From The Wall Street Journal

The activist investor agreed to a sweetened bid earlier this month, paving the way for the company, from which Toyota Motor was spun off in 1937, to be taken private.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paramount, which had initially bid $108 billion for the entire company, continued to circle, launching a hostile tender offer aimed directly at shareholders and continually sweetening the terms of its bid.

From MarketWatch

Many small and midsize business owners don’t know they are eligible for two big tax breaks, one of which was sweetened by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act starting on 2025 taxes.

From Barron's