sweetening

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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 posted its results shortly after sweetening its $72 billion bid for Warner Bros.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

My younger neighbors, knowing this, grocery-shopped for me, sweetening my mornings with fresh milk and fruit during those long, grim days.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

“We are definitely looking to use the whole tool kit of available sweetening options.”

From Salon • Jul. 23, 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