appeasement
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"In five years time will we look back at this approach and see it as appeasement? See it as a massive error?"
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
Legal experts suggest appeasement could be viable under certain circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing appeasement
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