brown-nosing
Example Sentences
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AI is trained in part on what people like, and people prefer the brown-nosing, says Myra Cheng, a computer-science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University and lead author of a March study on agreeable AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“And when he wasn’t brown-nosing, he was talking about Bigfoot.”
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023
OK, now we’re heading into potential brown-nosing territory.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2020
What to do about a supervisor who seems to value brown-nosing more than hard work?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2019
Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
