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Adopting a psychedelic-rock aesthetic, “Casket” was another stab at optimism; Brock wanted to create something intentionally upbeat to sweeten the sour, post-pandemic mood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Reflecting that political juggle, NextEra and Dominion are proposing to give $2.25 billion in bill credits to customers to sweeten the deal with federal and state regulators.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Guzmán López had long been secretly negotiating his own surrender to U.S. authorities and believed that bringing in Zambada would sweeten his deal, according to U.S. officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

To sweeten the deal, Amazon is providing same-day delivery to nearly 3,000 cities, with plans to expand to 4,500 by the end of the year.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

They’d put the bad mouth on their aunt’s first American day; you had to sweeten their noisy barbarous mouths.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Here is how the deal sours for Netflix and sweetens for Paramount.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025

Ava sweetens the moment by telling her mentor that this token is something they should have shared a long time ago.

From Salon ● May 9, 2025

And I said, “Well, that sweetens the pot.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023

Celia enters her kitchen and warms a little milk on the stove, then sweetens it with a few lumps of sugar.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Sources close to the new deal said the creditors had sweetened it with hundreds of millions in new money on top of the existing offer.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Their findings indicate that these differences may influence food and beverage preferences and could help explain why certain sweetened products are especially appealing.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

This dessert is decadent and is baked with sweetened condensed milk that’s reminiscent of dulce de leche.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

When he was drafted, the team gave him just a small bonus, but sweetened the deal by offering to pay for college if he ever went back to school.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

“Thy namesake tamed the desert and sweetened the minds of thy people, didst thou know that? It is in the books.”

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

Developers tell the NYTimes that Chinese companies are sweetening deals by providing personal incentives to switch, drawing on the years of on-the-ground experience China’s tech and telecom providers have built up on the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

“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

It was clearly going to be wet all day, but it was a summer rain, deepening the green of the grass and the trees, sweetening and cleaning the air.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson