engage
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Rather than engage in a diplomatic spat, Visit Norway embraced the president’s characterization, promoting restrooms that include the award-winning Stegastein viewpoint toilet overlooking Aurlandsfjord and the triangular Golden Toilet on Senja Island.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Is Myshkin conceding defeat, refusing to engage, or simply recognizing that he and Rogozhin have reached a spiritual impasse?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
It may also engage the brain systems that shape how people experience themselves.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Nithya has also been willing to listen to and engage community members on key issues, rather than digging her heels in to advance special interests,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
I don’t know what caused the transformation, why suddenly I could engage with the great thinkers of the past, rather than revere them to the point of muteness.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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They feed into our biases because keeping us engaged means more time on their apps and more opportunities to serve us ads.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026
Hayward hopes that the incident will be an deterrent to those engaged in vandalism.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
“While we do not enforce unilateral export controls imposed by other countries, we act firmly against companies and individuals who violate our laws and are engaged in fraudulent and dishonest practices,” the representative said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But Essayli and other Justice Department officials have been engaged for weeks in an aggressive back and forth with California officials online — which is highly unusual for prosecutors actively litigating related cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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They were also engaging in broader networks of interaction across the Mediterranean world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“We’re engaging in the organic social content at a greater level and frequency than we were 12 months ago,” President David Gordon said on the earnings call to discuss results:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
It is frequently criticised by migrant rights groups who accuse it of engaging in the illegal "pushback" of migrants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
She’s engaging in a piece of performance art with two raging megalomaniacs.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 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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