appeasement

Example Sentences

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With hindsight, it's easy to mock Britain's policy of appeasement during the 1930s.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025

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

Unfortunately, Burns’s strategy of partial appeasement still spelled economic misfortune.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

As Darcy observed in an earlier Status scoop, insiders view Thompson’s move as an appeasement offering to the returning president.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

Beyond the gated community at Alexandria, then, Hellenistic Egypt was a stewpot of roiling antagonisms, contained only by an elaborate system of regulations, appeasement, and, if necessary, military force.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro