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That came just days after Atkins amended the bill to appease opponents concerned it would increase real estate speculation by adding an owner-occupancy requirement.

The idea here is to appease disgruntled customers and boost the overall star rating, which can bolster sales velocity.

So we’re providing accounts from seven agents, many of whom describe the experience of being caught between abusive callers and corporate directives to appease.

Some critics have accused President Moon of appeasing Kim Jong Un.

From Time

The situation has left Adidas and numerous other companies trying to walk the line of appeasing China’s large and valuable audience of shoppers while professing a zero-tolerance policy for forced labor to customers in the US and Europe.

From Quartz

The more we appease, the more we indulge, the more emboldened the enemies of freedom become.

Or maybe Alibaba is doing what other companies are doing in China: gagging itself and its customers to appease the apparatchiks.

Teasers to Reverse Flash and Crisis on Infinite Earths will appease geeky fanboys.

Plus, on cable you no longer have to whitewash the story and appease the masses, so the narratives are getting more interesting.

They were drafting to build teams, not to appease fan bases or score easy ticket sales.

In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.

Some affirm that he wrote to please royalty, but if so why did he not condemn the custom to appease the wrath of a sapient king.

This policy is necessary to appease the opposition that might be interposed in their behalf.

An angry controversy resulted, to appease which Theodosius the younger assembled the Council of Ephesus.

Andrea held up her hand to appease the patrician, whose exaggeration annulled his superiority.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to appease, such as: allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, calm, and lessen.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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