proffer
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Davis was given a proffer agreement for his testimony with the task force, meaning he agreed to provide information in exchange for possible benefit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
But you have no children, and you have already decided to remember your brother in your will, and yet your aunt decided to proffer a version of that request.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
“The Holy Father bids us to accept your proffer, Lancelot” The pathos which was growing in the room was broken by the Orkney faction for the second time.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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“He was essentially given a free pass when he admitted under the proffers to the feds, but until he wrote the book, they couldn’t use the statements,” said veteran defense attorney Mark Geragos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Standing out from the rest of the Crosstrek lineup, the Wilderness grade proffers a more distinct, rugged appearance.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
But van Mulukon proffers another wrinkle to the mix of set, setting and neurology: culture.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024
The affecting narrative proffers feminist solutions for a troubled nation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
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
Batson established a three-part framework for racial juror challenges: Defense counsel challenges a strike, the prosecutor gives race-neutral reasons for it, then defense counsel has the opportunity to rebut those proffered reasons as pretextual.
From Slate ● May 28, 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
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
But “Tracks II” more than makes up for this omission by proffering such a wide range of previously unreleased music.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2025
Passersby pressed their hands into hers, proffering congratulations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
The claim could be seen as a case of China deflecting and engaging in "whataboutism", said Mr Thompson, which is a way of responding to an accusation by proffering a counter-accusation.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
He took another leisurely bite of the oil stick before proffering it to her.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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