assuage
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Brink’s said last week it had decided to sell its NoteMachine and TestLink U.K. businesses in a bid to assuage the CMA’s concerns.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
Agreements on editorial boards or ombudsmen are typically made to assuage regulatory concerns over a change in media ownership.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."
From BBC β Sep. 21, 2026
Merz sought to assuage his critics this week, insisting that "long-term lessons" would be drawn from the difficult summer.
From Barron's β Aug. 28, 2026
Maybe the way we assuage our thirst has changed.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Squirreling the creature home in her backpack, she assuages its hissing-and-squawking terror with some simple nursing, then decides the right thing to do is reunite her new friend with its family.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 18, 2025
Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.
From Seattle Times β Sep. 5, 2023
Their oversimplicity both exploits and assuages that looming sense of collective guilt: They feel true.
From Slate β Feb. 27, 2019
Whether the new policy further inflames or assuages the controversy remains to be seen.
From New York Times β May 23, 2018
It is silence, peaceful silence, cool longing which assuages, and so all of life is kind and large, maternal and womanly—soft.
From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig
Immediately, my worries were assuaged — there were, in fact, women there.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 24, 2026
But on Friday, the Americans assuaged all of those concerns in a single half of soccer.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 19, 2026
That hasn’t assuaged concerns among some that a dot-com-style bubble may be building, especially given the sharp run-up.
From MarketWatch β May 28, 2026
In an instant, Urbina’s fears had been assuaged.
From Salon β May 2, 2026
Yet they were always a little hungry, not starving, but with an emptiness inside them that was never quite assuaged.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
Given the stock’s retreat over recent months, stronger-than-expected results, amid low expectations, “could go a long way in assuaging several of these investor concerns.”
From MarketWatch β Jul. 15, 2026
The goal was to provide enterprise customers more powerful tools while assuaging the White House’s concerns that they could be weaponized by bad actors.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 16, 2026
Earlier this week, the U.S. promised tankers protection through the Persian Gulf, if necessary, assuaging some of the market’s concerns about the effects of a Hormuz chokehold.
From Barron's β Mar. 6, 2026
"A sincere apology would acknowledge that grievance and, in my view, would go some way to assuaging the sense of injustice," he said.
From BBC β Oct. 18, 2024
During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina GarcΓa
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