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
Another analyst says that while the US' trading partners may seek appeasement in the short term, they could still decide to hit back in the long run.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 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
At the time, Zakim said that Rolling Stone started featuring fewer of founder Jann Wenner’s rock star friends on the cover, so the lifetime subscription might have been an appeasement tactic.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024
They had been halfhearted tokens of penance, insincere, corrupt gestures meant more for his own appeasement than hers.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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