appeasement
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Legal experts suggest appeasement could be viable under certain circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
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
As Darcy observed in an earlier Status scoop, insiders view Thompson’s move as an appeasement offering to the returning president.
From Salon ● Jan. 29, 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
Our old teacher brought paper doilies to school in her many efforts at appeasement, and her windows were always crawling with paper vegetation.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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