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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

Reflecting that political juggle, NextEra and Dominion are proposing to give $2.25 billion in bill credits to customers to sweeten the deal with federal and state regulators.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Guzmán López had long been secretly negotiating his own surrender to U.S. authorities and believed that bringing in Zambada would sweeten his deal, according to U.S. officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 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

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

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

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

South Korea sweetens its arms export deals by offering to transfer technology and facilitate local production, enhancing the domestic defense industries of its buyers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2023

His voice sweetens sardonically ‘And we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Santa won’t be too impressed with that, will he now? No, he won’t.”

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

After researchers accounted for other potential factors, greater consumption of artificially sweetened beverages was not associated with a higher incidence of gastric cancer.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The bottled Coca-Cola is sweetened with cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup, and the beef in the Steakburgers comes from cattle raised on pasture grass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

Mamou made my favorite dish for dinner: zereshk polow, which is rice mixed with sweetened dried red barberries.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

“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

Tennis Australia is equally as bold as its American counterparts, but it does not have the same financial clout to offer the mountain of prize money and sweetening appearance fees.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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