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There’s a mercenary quality to the more ostentatious looks; they please crowds or pacify them for long enough to compel closer listening to the intricacies of her music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

It starts with Lamar rapping quickly but calmly over a smooth-jazz backdrop, taunting, “I make music that electrify ’em, you make music that pacify ’em.”

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

The celebration lasted for half an hour before they realized this was just a piece of wishful thinking someone had spread around to pacify them.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023

Mr Coles's brother Mark said "We heard promises from HAL at the inquest for improvements to worker safety. These cannot simply be empty promises to pacify the coroner. They must result in real change."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

He wanted to hold the troops, make sacrifice, a hekatomb, something to pacify Athena’s rage.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“People are saying, ‘Let’s give our peculiar new king a chance,’ while the prospect of an election pacifies a lot of the frustration and rage that people would otherwise feel.”

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

In recent months, Farinelli has taken on business partners and a few employees, and has begun working with a third-party logistics company for shipping, though he still pacifies cranky shoppers personally.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022

Nov. 8 is his “Groundhog Day,” on endless repeat, in a way that pleases and pacifies him.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2017

“Is it really something that pacifies? Or is it something that drives apart?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2016

But time pacifies everything to the glory of the dynasty and the profit of Egypt.”

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander

“What catches on is completely unpredictable, there’s almost a mysterious alchemy to it. What’s clear is this: The regime hasn’t pacified them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026

“I have faith that very soon all this region is going to be pacified and brotherhood and concord will return,” he said during a recent visit to La Concordia to inaugurate a new bridge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

The companies pacified the recruits with niceties onshore and offshore.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023

Was it a barely pacified, muddy hut-filled foggy rock on the edge of the known world or a fully paid-up member of the imperial fan club?

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021

He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Or you might enter directly from the street into an office, without the pacifying liminal space of a waiting room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

If the Fed is otherwise confident in its bank-liquidity regulations, there’s no obvious reason pacifying the overnight lending market should be a policy concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Rights groups in the past have dismissed government probes as a public relations tool aimed at pacifying public anger.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2022

"The coalition has done a tremendous job in pacifying potential distrust in the government," said Abbas.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2022

Kote made a pacifying gesture with the hand that held the spoon.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss