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Recent Examples of draw in
There's the Feast of the Assumption celebration on Aug. 15, which draws in thousands of travelers who make their pilgrimage to the church and to enjoy the island in the days surrounding it.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025
On a blank world map, without borders drawn in, what % of Americans can even point to where the inauguration happened?
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Battle lines continue to be drawn in the battle’s final days.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
The power draw in Guardians of the Galaxy was also on the high side, and the B570 pulled more power in Returnal than either the Radeon RX 7600 or the RTX 4060.
—PCMAG, 25 Jan. 2025
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025
On a blank world map, without borders drawn in, what % of Americans can even point to where the inauguration happened?
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
Battle lines continue to be drawn in the battle’s final days.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 20 Jan. 2025
The power draw in Guardians of the Galaxy was also on the high side, and the B570 pulled more power in Returnal than either the Radeon RX 7600 or the RTX 4060.
—PCMAG, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draw in
Verb
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Cotton leaned hard on the White House to persuade, not pressure, arguing that an overly combative approach could be counterproductive for people like Young.—
Stef W. Kight,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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Due to those risks, local officials were able to persuade corps officials to reduce the amount of water initially planned for release.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2025
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Soot blew in through gaps and cracks, sneaked under doors and snowed down from vents, homeowners said, powdering their carpets, closets, couches, pillows and quilts.—
Jack Healy,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Ravens might get snowed on during their playoff game on Sunday evening amid brutally cold temperatures.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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On hand for the séance is a thoroughly skeptical Poirot, inveigled to attend by a mystery-novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver.—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Sep. 2023
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Norman Mailer tried to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy, and not long after wrote a cruel letter to Styron, breaking off their friendship.—
Marion Winik,
Washington Post,
15 June 2023
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John Graves Simcoe, the inaugural lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, intended to create a model colony, one that would lure Americans back to British rule.—
Lawrence B.A. Hatter / Made by History,
TIME,
4 Feb. 2025
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The panels, tributes, and special screenings lure not only local cinephiles but the area’s few hundred Academy members eager to hear Oscar contenders talk about their creative process.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2025
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In the costume drama based on Guy de Maupassant’s 1885 novel of the same name, Pattinson portrayed an ambitious and amoral social striver, a former soldier who seeks to improve his fortunes by seducing the wives (played by Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman and Kristin Scott Thomas) of powerful men.—
Kevin Cassidy,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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His evolution from a homeless teen seducing girls on his friends’ couches into an international pop star with one foot in Hollywood and the other atop the Billboard charts has been a circuitous one filled with pitfalls — and some of the catchiest tunes of the century.—
Matthew Ismael Ruiz,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Draw in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draw%20in. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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