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balm

[bahm] / bɑm /




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All of that access can feel like a balm for the ever-embattled press, a deserved return to pride of place.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2026

The moon is right there on your phone now and that can be a fleeting balm for our troubled souls.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

We’ll take our balm where we can find it, especially now.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

“Greenland 2: Migration” offers up a proudly, even defiantly optimistic view of what comes after disaster, which can serve for the viewer as either cathartic fictional balm, or Pollyanna-ish fantasy — pick your poison.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

In her lap is a kelly green Bermuda bag with pink piping and wooden handles; inside the bag is a tube of 7UP-flavored lip balm that she draws from time to time across her mouth.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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