sweeten
Example Sentences
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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.
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
Discovery CEO, and disclosed that Paramount intended to “sweeten” its pending hostile offer for the studio to fend off Netflix prior to announcing its intention to do so publicly.
From Los Angeles Times
The team also sweetened its bid by promising a one-time $450 million payment to be distributed among the 10 existing teams to make up for the dilution in prize money.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
