mollify
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They have every reason to mollify the Hollywood crowd to extract full value from their merged empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
No 10's attempts to mollify backbenchers will continue in the coming days, with the 37 Scottish Labour MPs getting particular close attention.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
X in June sought to mollify the EU by adding a disclaimer to the checkmark.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has taken a cautious approach, seeking to mollify Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
This seems to mollify them, and they all kiss me, set me on a chair in my bedroom, and, as usual, start talking nonstop without bothering to notice if.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?
From Time Magazine Archive
"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
This mollifies him, and he politely shows us what he is doing.
From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Henry Van Dyke
To have a man so simple and so honourable to represent us in the darkness of primeval history, binds all the intervening centuries together, and mollifies all their monstrosities.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
"Beauty in distress mollifies the court, does it?" inquired Richard, willing to be won from his own wretchedness by talk even with a man like this.
From Bred in the Bone by James Payn
The inequalities made many Scottish politicians pause, until their concerns were mollified by generous financial rewards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
“Nvidia will likely exceed earnings expectations but the question is whether investors will be mollified or not,” she added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
He ideally would like to bring Western nations along, yet they believe his hunger for peace outweighs his wish to ensure European leaders are mollified.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Nor is he mollified by the idea of moving everyone to a nearby lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Actually, Dad had mollified my brother, if only a little.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
This is evidently quite appealing, or mollifying, to many audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But if you can get on its wavelength, there’s a mollifying charm to Travolta’s debut.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
That includes mollifying the person who made her vice president, thus vaulting Harris to top-tier status should she run again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
It’s a great character moment for Danvers, who has been more comfortable than Navarro in mollifying the powers-that-be.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
“Don’t tell the world what we’re trying to do,” Jack whispered in a mollifying tone.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing mollify
Of Mice and Men
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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