appeasement
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But if you take the governor at his word, and his actions weren’t meant as appeasement, what he did was bad nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
"There is a general taboo in the media… sensible discussions about how to coexist with China can get easily branded as appeasement," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
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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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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