mollify

No, Ms. Brown was interested in grief, memory, selective prosecution, hasty police work, the politics of law enforcement, and the need to mollify the public when a heinous crime has been committed and goes unsolved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Official L.A., anxious to mollify angry and frightened Angelenos, dropped the hammer on a plant near downtown L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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

“I’ll get them later,” he said to mollify me, then slammed the door.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

He's half started to bow his neck at Boggs, but they mollifies him.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton

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

Umb, This mollifies, But y'are so fickle: and will again denie this, There being no witness by.

From The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother by John Fletcher

Some readers may be mollified by this—or amused by Mr. Pappalardo’s explanation that telling the tale of Borger required some shiftiness since “it’s just that kind of town.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

“Oh, in that case I guess it’s okay,” Colonel Korn said, mollified.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

But if you can get on its wavelength, there’s a mollifying charm to Travolta’s debut.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

Much of Adams Kellum’s early work will be about mollifying frustrations over the impact — or lack thereof — that the agency has had in stemming the growth of homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023

Aside from mollifying Western observers, Khomeini was probably trying to reassure his liberal allies in the revolution against the shah, which included a vast number of active and vocal women.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021

Chamberlin was startled to see that Holmes’s false warmth seemed to be mollifying the creditors.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson