sweetening
Example Sentences
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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 • Mar. 16, 2026
Netflix is offering to pay $27.75 per share in cash, sweetening its offer from the initial bid, which proposed a mix of cash and shares in the new company.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026
Netflix posted its results shortly after sweetening its $72 billion bid for Warner Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
My younger neighbors, knowing this, grocery-shopped for me, sweetening my mornings with fresh milk and fruit during those long, grim days.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
I had seen lots of Persians drink their tea this way—sipping it through a cube of sugar—but I was categorically opposed to sweetening tea in any way.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
