pander
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How can you pander to a player so much?
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Conversely, “Forbidden Fruits” speaks intimately to the female experience and “doesn’t attempt to pander to any other demographic.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
But the jury is out on whether Warsh will "pander to the president" if persistent inflation called for higher rates, he added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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“The film panders to a very specific section of my dad’s fandom that still lives in the fantasy,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Critics also say the shoey panders too much to stereotypes which don't reflect modern Australia.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023
The characters were developed in a way that honors audiences rather than panders to them.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021
Day, the Australian researcher, agrees that mummies deserve respect, but thinks removing them panders to a modern aversion to seeing the dead.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2021
One of a band of panders which sprang into existence soon after the death of Gutenberg and which now overruns the world.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
We don’t need to be pandered to with short-form content depicting people four times our age using our slang incorrectly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
If the viewer doesn’t like it or feels like they’re being obnoxiously pandered to through repetition and over-explanation, the best choice is to watch something else.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
She said she wasn't aware of media criticism of the show as "woke" and and thought a headline saying it "pandered to woke culture" was "cute".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
This is despite a lack of films featuring Latinos, which I think speaks to another overlooked fact: Latinos don’t need to be pandered to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
All the Jeffersonian chants about human equality were delusions that pandered to mankind’s urge to believe an impossible dream.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
“The experience of being Arab and Muslim has been to be the object of hate by one party and the subject of pandering by another. Both of them are alienating,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
Despite the horror vacui and digital pandering, the objects brought together here by lead curator Rosina Buckland describe multiple facets of samurai culture with breadth and brilliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
I’m not saying anyone should pity a woman who built her career pandering to sexism, even if she doesn’t like being on the receiving end.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
We’d been taught that worrying about inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering, that it almost demeaned an officer.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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