patronize
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Who would patronize these houses of financial ill-repute?
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Practitioners of downward dog and their actual dogs patronize this tangerine-colored canteen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
If we want an art scene here, we have to patronize it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025
I’ve been thinking about the nightclubs our community used to frequent and the ones we patronize now.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2025
I thought, Already he’s starting to patronize me.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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