appeasement
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But if you take the governor at his word, and his actions weren’t meant as appeasement, what he did was bad nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
With hindsight, it's easy to mock Britain's policy of appeasement during the 1930s.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
Unfortunately, Burns’s strategy of partial appeasement still spelled economic misfortune.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025
People in all parts of government, industry and education are going with a strategy of appeasement, trying to get by.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
The picture is not unlike Egypt today, where the government in Cairo keeps power by a combination of tactics, including management of local religious authorities that swerves between heavy-handed intimidation and cynical appeasement.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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