appeasement
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"In five years time will we look back at this approach and see it as appeasement? See it as a massive error?"
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
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
At the time, Zakim said that Rolling Stone started featuring fewer of founder Jann Wenner’s rock star friends on the cover, so the lifetime subscription might have been an appeasement tactic.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2024
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
Instead of resisting Nazi Germany’s demands, France and Britain followed a policy of appeasement; by giving in to Hitler’s lesser demands, they hoped to avoid greater demands in the future.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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