mollify

Official L.A., anxious to mollify angry and frightened Angelenos, dropped the hammer on a plant near downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

They have every reason to mollify the Hollywood crowd to extract full value from their merged empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

X in June sought to mollify the EU by adding a disclaimer to the checkmark.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

Now the question is whether the departures will be enough to mollify the mostly young people who have been staging regular and increasingly elaborate demonstrations.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025

Apparently in an effort to mollify the inflamed press, he let photographers back into the barn.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?

From Time Magazine Archive

"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."

From Time Magazine Archive

For moisture mollifies, and both giues leaue to the roots to spread, and makes the earth yeeld sap and nourishment with plenty & facility.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by William Lawson

My Madeline's most mirthful mood Much mollifies my mind's machine; My mournfulness' magnitude Melts—makes me merry, Madeline!

From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous

Hoary hair mollifies minds that are fond of strife and petulant wrangling.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

He was not at all mollified by a problem with the GPS system that shows teams where all the cars are on track.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

“Nvidia will likely exceed earnings expectations but the question is whether investors will be mollified or not,” she added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

Investors took fright that the deficit will spiral out of control and were mollified somewhat Friday morning when Britain’s Treasury leaked that rosier economic forecasts might leave her with a smaller budget gap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Nor is he mollified by the idea of moving everyone to a nearby lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

“Oh, in that case I guess it’s okay,” Colonel Korn said, mollified.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

This is evidently quite appealing, or mollifying, to many audiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

But if you can get on its wavelength, there’s a mollifying charm to Travolta’s debut.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

It’s a great character moment for Danvers, who has been more comfortable than Navarro in mollifying the powers-that-be.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Much of Adams Kellum’s early work will be about mollifying frustrations over the impact — or lack thereof — that the agency has had in stemming the growth of homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

“Someday soon, you find that fair one,” she said in mollifying tones.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson