pandering
Example Sentences
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Lacy doesn’t come off as someone overly concerned with doing big numbers, or pandering to a newfound pop audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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
First, good on Mazzulla to straight-up treat the kid as the reporter he clearly is, and answer the question directly, without pandering or turning it into some sort of saccharine after-school special.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 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
