pandering
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“Practical Magic 2” is an exercise in girl-power pandering in which the Owenses, three pairs of sisters from the same family of witches, live gingerly on an idyllic Massachusetts island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
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
She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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