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In today’s housing market, traffic is so slow that he’s had to sweeten the deal by offering a hundred bucks to agents to hold an open house, he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Milk, for example, would be mixed with formaldehyde to sweeten it when it went rancid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

According to Hunter, jury members had made up their minds before the remaining three castaways even had a shot to sweeten their chances at the final tribal council.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

China’s peace efforts could include finding a way to sweeten the pot so a resolution emerges, which would come at little cost and potentially big benefits for China, Sun says.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

But in those days, if people used fruit, honey, and sugar to sweeten foods, they often mixed salty or even bitter tastes with sweet ones.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

It may also offer them a cut of the spoils from a tolled Strait, but that hardly sweetens the foul deal for the rest of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Here is how the deal sours for Netflix and sweetens for Paramount.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025

Ava sweetens the moment by telling her mentor that this token is something they should have shared a long time ago.

From Salon ● May 9, 2025

The skin and butter brown, the garlic sweetens, the bird infuses with the nutty flavors of the cheese.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

This milk is thick and creamy, and its taste sweetens my tongue.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

In one study the authors cite, consumers who say that they regularly avoid sugar still view sweetened cereal as a “permissible indulgence.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Cortado Cloud, a 4-ounce espresso or matcha drink sweetened with vanilla syrup and finished with a thick cream top, is exclusive to Studio City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Serve with lightly sweetened orange-zest whipped cream — homemade or straight from the spray can.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Through questionnaires completed every 1 to 4 years, participants reported how often they consumed sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda, fruit punch, lemonade, sweetened tea and sports drinks.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

Some are also sold separately for sweetening foods and beverages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Developers tell the NYTimes that Chinese companies are sweetening deals by providing personal incentives to switch, drawing on the years of on-the-ground experience China’s tech and telecom providers have built up on the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Paramount, which had initially bid $108 billion for the entire company, continued to circle, launching a hostile tender offer aimed directly at shareholders and continually sweetening the terms of its bid.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

“They’re sweetening the pot,” Paul Hardart, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said of the Ellison family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

One oonful of this is more economical and far more sweetening than two of ordinary granulated Sugar.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson