proffer
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He now says his proffer agreement with police, under which he agreed to tell them what he knew but it couldn't be used against him in court, was given under duress, according to Netflix.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
He knows how to conduct a proffer, trust me.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
If past is prologue, he will overreach in response to this week’s peace proffer, rejecting what many in his entourage would view as an attractive exit from a strategic miscue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“They want them to squirm or even proffer a plea deal on their own…”
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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Standing out from the rest of the Crosstrek lineup, the Wilderness grade proffers a more distinct, rugged appearance.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
“All four of those people that did their proffers in front of you, they did their plea, it was all recorded, it was sent out there for the world to see,” he said.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2023
When the judge asked Miller why he leaked the proffers, Miller defended his actions.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
They sat for video-recorded interviews with prosecutors - called proffers - that give a glimpse of their potential testimony.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
She goes round and proffers each of us her hand.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Microsoft started the month with the launch of its own AI models designed to power target corporate use cases at a much lower cost than the frontier models proffered by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
An MP close to Miliband proffered a more straightforward explanation.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
An exception among them is the purposely titled “Outrageous Predictions” proffered annually by Saxo Bank of Denmark.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Suppliers proffered various expensive goods, including a designer bag worth $2,290, three luxury watches each worth thousands, and numerous prepaid American Express gift cards totaling tens of thousands of dollars, the complaint said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
Again he proffered cigarettes and a bag of crackers.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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Surprisingly, this was Ms. Josefowicz’s first Ojai Festival, her debut on the Libbey Bowl stage having come the day before, proffering Mr. Adams’s rollicking “Road Movies” with her frequent musical partner John Novacek on piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Passersby pressed their hands into hers, proffering congratulations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
The Zilbersteins and Righetti have gone onto start a business proffering the unique protein-analyzing tech, called SpringStyle Tech Design.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2023
Despite bipartisan legislative efforts to derail the initiative by proffering two competing, though weaker, measures for the 1972 ballot, I-276 won with more than 70% of the vote — a landslide.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Before he knew it, Bobby’s winnings from Reykjavik were beginning to diminish, and yet he saw that Rader and Armstrong were flying all over the world, entertaining lavishly, and proffering gifts to world leaders.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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