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Recent Examples of deign
If Swift would deign to associate with Mahomes, that either meant Swift was imperfect (a hard pill to swallow) or that Mahomes actually wasn’t a tacky, messy, and evil she-devil (for some, an even harder pill).
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Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2025
Two top-firing tweeters are deigned to push high frequencies upward.
—New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
These days, Infantino rarely deigns to attend conventional press conferences.
—Adam Crafton, New York Times, 12 July 2025
Forty years after making the generation-defining teen drama that saw his jock Andrew Clark thrown together in a Saturday detention with popular princess Molly Ringwald, nerd Anthony Michael Hall, bad boy Judd Nelson, and introvert Ally Sheedy, Estevez finally deigned to attend a cast reunion.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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stoop
Verb
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High-torque joints in the waist enable deep squatting and stooping, supporting operations that require strength and flexibility.—
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Tim stooped down and put his hand on the little buck’s horns.—
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“Deign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deign. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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