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Six example sentences with patronize, each labelled with its topic.
Critics who patronize folk painters, calling their work charming rather than serious, rarely look at the brushwork for long.
Art
The conductor did not mean to patronize the youth orchestra, but praising them for simply staying in tune landed as an insult.
Music
Investors who patronize first-time founders, explaining what a balance sheet is before anyone asked, seldom get a second meeting.
Startups
Commentators who patronize the women's league, praising its effort rather than its skill, rarely watch a full game.
Basketball
Doctors who patronize older patients, speaking slowly and answering the daughter instead, miss what the patient could tell them.
Medicine
Candidates who patronize rural voters with folksy jokes and no policy tend to lose those districts by wide margins.
Politics
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