sweeten
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Milk, for example, would be mixed with formaldehyde to sweeten it when it went rancid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Many counties sweeten the deal with school-tax exemptions for residents 62 or 65-plus.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
Adopting a psychedelic-rock aesthetic, “Casket” was another stab at optimism; Brock wanted to create something intentionally upbeat to sweeten the sour, post-pandemic mood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
New, massive ships filled with amenities and private islands helped sweeten the deal.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
The last time I visited my abuela, she had a big cone of piloncillo that we’d chip off into our coffee to sweeten it.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
The Social Security Administration leaves it up to every person to make those decisions for themselves and, yes, it sweetens the pot if you claim later.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
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
Freewheeling assessments of the gaming industry have attracted millions of fans to the YouTube reviews of the personality nicknamed Dunkey, whose self-deprecating humor sweetens his critiques of popular video games.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
The skin and butter brown, the garlic sweetens, the bird infuses with the nutty flavors of the cheese.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
Celia enters her kitchen and warms a little milk on the stove, then sweetens it with a few lumps of sugar.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
The pattern was different for artificially sweetened drinks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 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
Sources close to the new deal said the creditors had sweetened it with hundreds of millions in new money on top of the existing offer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The berries and raspberry preserves sweetened it to perfection.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
Her handmaids filled the tub with tepid water that stank of sulfur, sweetening it with jars of bitter oil and handfuls of cmshed mint leaves.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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