sweeten
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For families trying to figure out whether to use the accounts, the proposed rules could sweeten the deal, financial advisers say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Milk, for example, would be mixed with formaldehyde to sweeten it when it went rancid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
According to Hunter, jury members had made up their minds before the remaining three castaways even had a shot to sweeten their chances at the final tribal council.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
New, massive ships filled with amenities and private islands helped sweeten the deal.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
“I think Mama’s plan to sweeten Mrs. Kluck up is working,” Sara says.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
The Social Security Administration leaves it up to every person to make those decisions for themselves and, yes, it sweetens the pot if you claim later.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
It may also offer them a cut of the spoils from a tolled Strait, but that hardly sweetens the foul deal for the rest of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Freewheeling assessments of the gaming industry have attracted millions of fans to the YouTube reviews of the personality nicknamed Dunkey, whose self-deprecating humor sweetens his critiques of popular video games.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
The skin and butter brown, the garlic sweetens, the bird infuses with the nutty flavors of the cheese.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
His voice sweetens sardonically ‘And we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Santa won’t be too impressed with that, will he now? No, he won’t.”
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
The paper, 'Effect of non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water on body weight: long-term results of a randomised controlled trial', was published in British Journal of Nutrition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
The coffee chain’s new “premium chai” recipe reflects a fresh focus on customization, sweetened with just two grams of honey so customers can adjust flavor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Cortado Cloud, a 4-ounce espresso or matcha drink sweetened with vanilla syrup and finished with a thick cream top, is exclusive to Studio City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Serve with lightly sweetened orange-zest whipped cream — homemade or straight from the spray can.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
My mother poured out tea sweetened with sugar into the teacup, and threw this into the sea.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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
For PSUS’s do-over listing, Ackman is sweetening the deal by giving those who participate in the fund IPO free shares in Pershing Square.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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
“They’re sweetening the pot,” Paul Hardart, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said of the Ellison family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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
