assuagement

Example Sentences

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For Hamlet, Sanders represents an assuagement of the stereotypes of what Black men can to do achieve success.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

It used, as foils, those landscapes of assuagement and the way they morphed over the decades to match the times.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2021

But she offered oddly little direct assuagement to the unsettled working class that still craves her assurance.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2016

Form, in other words, allows him to draw some assuagement from the very source of the agony itself.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

I was still crying when she took me to her trunk, and offered the grateful assuagement of candy and a belt, all embroidered with blue and white beads.

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving