sweeten
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For families trying to figure out whether to use the accounts, the proposed rules could sweeten the deal, financial advisers say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 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
Ackman also noted another unusual feature of the deal that should help sweeten the pill for anyone with immediate losses on the closed-end fund.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
And if we had luck the water would drag back enough of the weed to fill our baskets for soup, with a little left to sweeten the potatoes.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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
“Best in Isfahan. Her hand sweetens the honey itself.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Prologis PLD -0.18%decrease; down pointing triangle said Segro has rejected a sweetened third takeover offer that values the company at 13.5 billion pounds, equivalent to $18.16 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The berries and raspberry preserves sweetened it to perfection.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
Netflix is offering to pay $27.75 per share in cash, sweetening its offer from the initial bid, which proposed a mix of cash and shares in the new company.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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
I had seen lots of Persians drink their tea this way—sipping it through a cube of sugar—but I was categorically opposed to sweetening tea in any way.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
