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
There is still stigma and misunderstanding around his illness, which he is keen to assuage.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 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
Harry felt that nothing but action would assuage his feelings of guilt and grief and that he ought to set out on his mission to find and destroy Horcruxes as soon as possible.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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