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Brink’s said last week it had decided to sell its NoteMachine and TestLink U.K. businesses in a bid to assuage the CMA’s concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Agreements on editorial boards or ombudsmen are typically made to assuage regulatory concerns over a change in media ownership.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Merz sought to assuage his critics this week, insisting that "long-term lessons" would be drawn from the difficult summer.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Perhaps, she said, there is something else she can tell you to assuage your curiosity.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

Tuesday's move assuages what had been growing frustration at the lack of a big picture vision from the Labour government.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

What she notices about pizza is that pizza “is like a smiling face: It assuages the fear of complexity by showing everything on its surface.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

A sort of penance, where by reading all the nasty comments under every post she assuages some of her guilt, as a zealot whips himself bloody to atone for sin?

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2024

Having Castillo atop the rotation certainly assuages many of those feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

But it does more than all this, it even assuages choler; it is an admirable cataplasm for rage.

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber

Tech stock losses cooled, but concerns about high costs and barriers to AI growth haven’t been completely assuaged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

That hasn’t assuaged concerns among some that a dot-com-style bubble may be building, especially given the sharp run-up.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

In an instant, Urbina’s fears had been assuaged.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

That was partly assuaged when the cast, made up of up-and-coming talent rather than established names, was announced.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

At night, before she slept, Kira held the scrap of cloth that had so often assuaged her fears and even answered her questions.

From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry

Given the stock’s retreat over recent months, stronger-than-expected results, amid low expectations, “could go a long way in assuaging several of these investor concerns.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The goal was to provide enterprise customers more powerful tools while assuaging the White House’s concerns that they could be weaponized by bad actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Earlier this week, the U.S. promised tankers protection through the Persian Gulf, if necessary, assuaging some of the market’s concerns about the effects of a Hormuz chokehold.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

"A sincere apology would acknowledge that grievance and, in my view, would go some way to assuaging the sense of injustice," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

During the first months of their marriage, he called Celia every night, his gentle voice assuaging her.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García