good graces
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Read: Amazon is back in Wall Street’s good graces.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
But the reverse is also true, and former antagonists can be rehabilitated, welcomed once again into the president's good graces.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Mother Mary, then, has just reached her rock bottom, with Sam’s good graces barely cushioning her fall.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026
This may have been because he was a foreigner, or a calculating businessman, but Ms. Goldring makes the case that it was Holbein’s irreplaceable artistic prowess that kept him in the king’s good graces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
No telling what it might take to get back in his good graces.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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