assuage
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In Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” Roy M. Cohn, trying to assuage an angry client he can’t get off the phone, offers theater tickets to a show he knows that this annoying rube will like.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Yet the strong outturn wasn’t enough to assuage investors’ worries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Earnings have been fine, and March’s above-expectation retail sales report could assuage concerns about a drastic pullback in consumer spending in response to the war.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
With OpenAI committing to spending $600 billion on compute by 2030, the company needs to demonstrate clear growth momentum to assuage concerns that it’s overspending on AI.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
He was an old-timer and apparently had thought of a way to assuage his own irritating feelings of loss of control.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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