ingratiate oneself with

Washington, D.C. resident Joseph Sprott was just two days into a new marketing job when the office went fully remote, which he said makes it harder to “ingratiate oneself” with the new manager and team.

It could also be that your mentee isn’t at all insecure but thinks that self-deprecation is the best way to ingratiate oneself with superiors.

No matter how much a ruling entity collects, taxes aren’t a great way to ingratiate oneself with the governed.

In the 20th century, one would try to ingratiate oneself with the gatekeepers, the editors.

Fuchsia or magenta means you are a militant feminist, a sympathizer or possibly afraid of them and would to ingratiate oneself with them.