wooing
求爱,爱慕,爱慕者,爱慕虚荣
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Definitions
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- : to seek the favor, affection, or love of, especially with a view to marriage.
- : to seek to win: to woo fame.
- : to invite by one's own action; court: to woo one's own destruction.
- : to seek to persuade, as to do something; solicit; importune.
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- : to seek the affection or love of someone, usually a woman; court: He was reminded of his youth when he went wooing.
- : to solicit favor or approval; entreat: Further attempts to woo proved useless.
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Examples
That makes sense when you consider its CEO — Ben Kaufman, previously the chief commerce officer and chief marketing officer at BuzzFeed behind the brand’s buzzy forays into retail that further wooed over millennials.
It could get worse if unrestricted free agent Romeo Okwara, the ninth-best pass rusher of 2020 per Pro Football Focus, is wooed by another club.
Last privately valued at more than $1 billion, according to equity-tracker PitchBook, Symphony could be a handy add-on for a cloud company interested in wooing Wall Street.
That might sound too woo-woo, too undisciplined to crack the sophisticated surface of a modern poem, but I found it takes a lot more discipline to withhold one’s judgment, to muzzle one’s consternation and simply let the lines work.
The terms were enough for a16z to win the deal against some tough competition, including Benchmark, which was also trying to woo Github at the time, as general partner, Peter Fenton, said recently.
Going northward would antagonize Iraqi Sunnis, whom Washington and Baghdad are currently wooing.
But it was his younger brother Maurice who did the important work of wooing and schmoozing the clients.
Forget a sensitive GOP, a nurturing GOP, a warm-and-fuzzy, women-wooing GOP.
It will take significant wooing in the brick-and-mortar world to lure them into the virtual one.
To compete with Netanyahu, Labor's calling for a "big-tent" party and is wooing former Kadima leader Tzipi Livni.
In starting out upon this simultaneous wooing, you forget that Mr. Devenish has already had his turn this morning alone.