engage
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Sauer sought the Supreme Court’s immediate intervention after lower courts ruled in favor of the preservation group, which was chartered by Congress to engage the public in protecting historic sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
One artist bemoaned that she had to “flatten and suppress her real self” to engage her audience.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
But he accepted it would engage "to support our application" to march, adding: "The focus has always been to bring our bannerette home from Drumcree in 1998."
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Meta has said it disagrees with the EU's findings but would engage "constructively" on the matter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Instead, “Sidney Poitier” said, “You can’t behave as you did in the fifth grade. When you behave like the upperclassmen and upperclasswomen that you are, we’ll engage in grade-six activities. Now, notebooks on desks.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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In December, Miley and her rocker boyfriend of more than four years, Maxx Morando, announced they were engaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Anyone who hasn’t engaged with the field “in the last 50 years” will think “wagon-wheel chandeliers, very heavy furniture; very, very brown, kind of stuck in the 1950s,” says author Chase Reynolds Ewald.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
For Sambe, the situation reflects an "increasing and openly acknowledged security dependence" of Niger on Russia, which had previously been mainly engaged in the fight against jihadism.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Readers’ senses are engaged as Muratov pauses in one place or another, such as in the Campagna on the outskirts of Rome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And the boys were engaged in fishing a bit of string out of a curbside puddle with a stick.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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He becomes executive chairman of Apple's board on the same day, with a mandate the company has said includes engaging policymakers around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
“The agency is prohibited by law from engaging in censorship or infringing on First Amendment rights of the press.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Councillor Loic Rich, portfolio holder for environment and climate change on Cornwall Council, said it was great to see residents engaging with recycling food.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
There is a long history of presidents engaging in construction and renovation projects on the White House and its grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Maids in waiting and my mother passed it from hand to hand, admiring it, engaging they would buy it.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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