appeasement
Example Sentences
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For one thing, her girl’s request to get a hamster and Linda’s weary appeasement just rings all too true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Another analyst says that while the US' trading partners may seek appeasement in the short term, they could still decide to hit back in the long run.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
Schools are trying various tactics from appeasement to threats of disciplinary action to get protestors to take down encampments or move to other areas of campus.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
In the late ’60s, the school decided to sanction the event as a safety measure, setting aside old furniture in some kind of appeasement scheme that didn’t always tame the chaos.
From Slate ● May 2, 2024
Vasiljevic’s strategy of appeasement was to give him whatever he wanted, even though the item might not have been mentioned in the contract.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing appeasement
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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World War II
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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