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Finding the least taxing way to activate your inner circle could gratify — and edify — all involved, and restore a sense of control over your own well-being.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2022

But it’s the houses that surprise visitors and gratify us, even if they can only be glimpsed from a street or a sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

Too often, ads are written to gratify sellers rather than bring in buyers, according to Saatchi.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022

In his place, Lewis Cass captured the Democratic nomination by equivocating about the meaning of popular sovereignty to gratify voters in both sections.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Levy's Lodge—that was what the sign at the coast road said—was a Xanadu of the senses; within its insulated walls there was something that could gratify anything.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

This outcome is rare in the contemporary dating scene, but “Heated Rivalry” gratifies the hope that such a future is possible.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026

Eating gratifies all the senses: We take in the aroma of a handsome dish, delight at the sound of a sizzling steak or crave the crunch of a crusty baguette.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

We're not in the same sport exactly, but it's the same milieu, and the fact that tour players know who I am and respect what I do gratifies me to no end.

From Golf Digest ● Nov. 13, 2018

Because it gratifies a craving for Frenchitude—for a stereotypical cinematic blend of freewheeling possibility and sociable leisure, of loose emotional indulgence protected by official institutions.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2016

In comparing an apple and a peach, both equally attainable, we may value the peach most highly because it gratifies desires in higher degree.

From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild

Yet many frustrated and alarmed American parents are probably gratified that at least their leaders are finally trying something.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Dans, who served in the US Office of Personnel Management during Trump's first administration, said he felt "gratified" by the number of policies in the document that have already been adopted.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

“The same group of people, the same kind of night, 30 years later. I feel incredibly gratified by that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

After four hours or so of sitting—watching other teams pass me—I fed them another snack, got ready to go, and was gratified to see Storm pick up the stick.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"I hadn't been on stage in 16 years, so terrifying as it was, it was one of the most gratifying things I've ever done within acting," he said.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

What began as a way to embellish college entrance applications has become a gratifying life experience for the teens as well as the elementary school students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

Even the surprising, gratifying wins like Madigan’s and Jordan’s feel as though they’re a mere half-step in the ceremony’s larger context.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2026

It’s very gratifying that something that’s this close to my heart has had such an amazing time.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

It seemed a confirmation—we were in the wilderness now—and a gratifying, totally commensurate reward for a day of hard toil.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson